Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II. on Leopold II of Belgium

“England would not have managed the Congo better than King Leopold has done if she had been mistress of it, as she might have become in 1877.”

“I crossed Africa from East to West and from West to East, and I never saw any excesses committed. I do not think that from this point of view there is a single sovereign living who has done so much for humanity as Leopold II."”