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Africa, much of it unsolicited, and some of it deeply unpopular. Yet, within this temporary expatriate community existed networks of affiliation which barely touched one another. While Hobhouse and her friends concerned themselves with conciliating Boer civilians, the personnel of the new Central British Red Cross Committee (CBRCC, founded in 1899) directed their efforts exclusively to British
, however, they also made reference to the importance of local participation in developing and implementing the reconstruction programme. The World Bank’s Strategic Directions paper in July 1999, for example, argued that: Kosovo’s people should be responsible for the economic and social recovery of their region. Expatriates should assist
agents were instructed to establish communication with Mr Bullock, an expatriate businessman administering the Daily News ’s Fund in France. He was to inform them of the areas most in distress. The Quakers also carried letters of introduction to Mr McLean, The Times ’s special correspondent at Metz. Once again, journalists operated as an informal information bureau for
constructed), but it had no effective means to control the distribution of aid once it had left the warehouse in London. It relied instead upon a series of depots founded in France by expatriate businessmen and their wives, for example at Amiens and Boulogne, which would telegraph their requirements to the Society in London. 27 Nevertheless, many agents were unaware of the
‘Bulgarian Revival’ ( vŭzrazhdane ) 14 had taken place. The first major Bulgarian political revolutionary was Georgi Rakowski, who died of tuberculosis in 1867, but not before he put on course the idea of overthrowing Ottoman rule. He was followed by journalist Lyuben Karavelov, poet Christo Botev and the main organizer, Vasil Levski (the ‘Apostle of Freedom’). 15 Karavelov, Botev and Levski, as expatriates in Bucharest, formed the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee
out of the country immediately. Belgian interests and Belgian expatriates in the Congo were clearly not reconciled to an early departure from the former colony. However, in the midst of independence euphoria, and with violent attacks on local Belgians on the rise, Belgium found the necessary pretext for its ‘humanitarian’ intervention in the Congo. The North–South conflict was visible from the outset
the London salons of the expatriate Russian propagandist Olga Kireeva Novikova (Novikoff in her English writings), where he first met Gladstone, Carlyle and Froude, among others. Stead was one of the three Englishmen, alongside Gladstone and the liberal journalist Peter Clayden, the editor of the Daily News , to receive a vote of thanks from the first Bulgarian National Assembly in 1878 for their role in the Bulgarian agitation movement in Britain. 105
the best-known names in humanitarianism did not deliver to the standard that might be expected, partly because of the large scale of their commitment: one of them was managing a thousand staff for a short time, including some 300 expatriates. Lack of ‘surge capacity’ in the international aid system has been identified as a general problem (Telford and Cosgrave 2007 : 22). But an experienced aid worker in
renowned for its ability to resist the Soviets and was known to host French relief workers. This involved close coordination with Western donors and Mujahideen commanders, logistical operations and the fielding of several hundred expatriate medical staff who worked directly with the Mujahideen by establishing a relationship in Pakistan and then crossing into Afghanistan. As one observer noted
Psychopath who duped the West ‘a man-made psychopath’ (expatriate Yugoslav doctor) the ‘madman’ may be both mad and bad Like his equally crazy sidekick Dr Radovan Karadzic in Bosnia, he casts himself as a persecuted genius, a Serbian hero … [with a] by now highly developed martyr complex ‘a very evil