 He interviewed both the Putumayo and men who had abused them, including three Barbadians who had also suffered from conditions of the company.When the report was published, there was public outrage in Britain over the abuses.In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Casement and John Devoy arranged a meeting in New York with the western hemisphere's top-ranking German diplomat, Count Bernstorff, to propose a mutually beneficial plan