South America, Paraguay.
Allied occupied territories (Triple Alliance of South America).
Devon Gilhart watched George Swinding emerge from the village with a large group of children.
"Mr. Swinding, if God Himself knew of your good deeds, He would surely reward you with good health and prosperous business for your company," Devon Gilhart said.
George Swinding said, "General Gilhart, you flatter us. We simply cannot bear to watch these children suffer. War should never have anything to do with innocent children like them."
"As a soldier, my duty is to obey. Though this war has no distinction between good and evil, I am still a participant in it. Their parents may have been innocent people who died in the flames of war, yet there is nothing I can do. The reproach of my conscience only makes me support your company's work all the more," Gilhart said.
Gilhart was an Argentine officer in the Paraguayan War and was currently resting within Paraguay.
George, meanwhile, was an employee of the Hohenzollern Conglomerate. This time, he had traveled to South America to take in orphans created by the war.
The population issue had always been the East African colony's greatest problem, but solving it could not be rushed.
Otherwise, they could have long since solved it by bringing in vast numbers of undesirable people. They would not even need to import them—the local natives alone would have been enough.
The problem was that this was certainly not what Ernst wanted. What Ernst wanted were immigrants who were stable and easy to govern.
For a long time, the Far East had been the main source of East African immigrants. Yet Ernst's strict restrictions meant that the number of Far Eastern immigrants arriving in East Africa did not remotely reflect the Far East's immense population.
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