"If instead of talking about neutrality, the Chamber took care of our trade, Belgium would become the richest in the world."

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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), Preface:A historiographical picture of Leopold II (1835-1909) Leopold to Edouard Blondeel, the Belgian Consul in Egypt, 1855.