March 1905. The most shocking nstances were those of the so called hunts and the 4July festiv French Congo. One of the hunts' was illustrated the white hunters in their safari suits and topee hats rising from their camp stools to take aim as a covey of naked Africans was driven past them by presumably, French army bearers in the same issue Bastille Day. of all days- the day when the beginning of the French Revolution is celebrated all over France-was illustrated with a lithograph of the festivities at Brazzaville, the capital of the French Congo (19 s). French colonial officials are here shown applauditig and jeering at the spectacle fan African being dynamited to mak a human firecracker. The Gand-Toque scandal was eventually hushed up bot there were fierce debates in the Chamber of Deputies and a widespread sense of public outrage. Anti-colonial societies were promoted and remained active until 1910 or later. At one of the meetings Pierre Quillard, whom Picasso knew, made a remarkable speech in which he never conde scended or pitied the Africans but asked his brothers of another skin and another color to please forgive us for the crimes we have committed against them. Quillard, like several of Picassos. friends, was a declared anarchist and although Picasso does not seem ever to have committed himself, at any rate politically, he was as open to the appeal of anarchism as they were. For it was the anarchist cultivation of independence of mind, freedom of action and experience for its own sake that attracted artists and intellectuals. The great interest suddenly taken by Picasso and his anarchist friends in the 'dark continent' and African art was motivated in this way: it was a radical