longer have the right to sell them. Instead they simply exchange them. Above all they make them have sons. The slave is no longer bought, he is born." He concluded with a critique of French policy in Africa, which he compares negatively, with the British or Belgium colonialism. (Terre d'ébène (Land of Ebony) ) In 1929, while anti-Semitism was rife in Europe, he went to Palestine. He met the Jewish community and came face to face with an outcast people. He declared himself in favour of the creation of a Jewish state, but doubted peace between the Jews and the Arabs. "The demographic imbalance presages difficult days ahead: 700,000 Arabs versus 150,000 Jews" (Le Juif errant est arrivé (The Wandering Jew has come home)). He next went to the Balkans to investigate the terrorist actions of the Bulgarian Komitadjis from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). This was to be his last completed report. He was killed in the fire on the MS Georges Philippar, the ocean liner taking him from China back to France. He seemed to have uncovered a scandal – "It was a matter of drugs, arms, of Bolshevik interference in Chinese affairs" reported Pierre Assouline's biography of Londres. But his notes were destroyed in the fire. Questions surround the fire – accident or attack? The only people to whom he confided the contents of his report – the couple Lang-Villar – died in a plane crash. Cultural impact Londres almost certainly was an inspiration to Belgian cartoonist Hergé, who created the fictional investigative journalist Tintin. Hergé worked at a busy newspaper and would have read of Londres' adventures. The 1983 Lucky Luke comic book Le Daily Star features Greely as a main character. Works Poetry Suivant les heures, 1904 L'Âme qui vibre, 1908 Le poème effréné including Lointaine and La marche à l'étoile, 1911 Reports and investigations Au bagne (1923) Dante n'avait rien vu (1924) Chez les fous (1925) La Chine en folie (1925) Le Chemin de Buenos Aires (1927) Marseille, porte du sud (1927) Figures de nomades (1928) L'Homme qui s'évada (1928) Terre d'ébène (1929) The Wandering Jew Has Arrived (1929) Le Juif errant est arrivé (1930) Pêcheurs de perles (1931) Les Comitadjis ou le terrorisme dans les Balkans (1932) Histoires des grands chemins (1932) Mourir pour Shanghai (1984, texts on the Sino-Japanese War in 1932) Si je t'oublie, Constantinople (1985, texts on the War in