"Obviously, we are leaving the humanitarian and scientific plan to risk a business whose commercial aspects seem to lack sufficient bases, and which, on top of that, seems fraught with national and international difficulties."
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Jules Greindl
Jules Xavier Charles Joseph Léonard Count Greindl (September 7, 1835 – July 30, 1917) was a Belgian diplomat and Minister of State.
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