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Why Did the Interwar Anticolonial Movement Fracture? - The 1927 Brussels Congress and the League Against Imperialism | Sleepy Facts About History
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In February 1927, a young doctoral student from Java named Mohammad Hatta walked into a palace in Brussels and found something that should not have been possible: more than one hundred and seventy delegates from thirty-seven countries gathered in the heart of imperial Europe to discuss the abolition of colonial rule. Among them were future leaders, radical organizers, and activists who disagreed about nearly everything except the central proposition that empire was illegitimate. This…
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