Vice consul is a diplomatic (consular) rank, lower than that of a Consul and higher than that of a Consular Agent. A Vice Consul is a subordinate officer in a Consular Mission, generally called a Consulate General or a Consulate, authorized to exercise certain consular functions in the circumscription of the respective Consular Mission, in accordance with the instructions of the Head of the Consular Mission.
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“Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.”
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