"It is not the first time that Belgium has had to undergo a dangerous ordeal. But never has the situation been more serious than today! … Freedom, honor, the very existence of the fatherland is at stake."
— Belgium

January 1, 1970

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Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 King Leopold II In a 1870 speech to the Belgian Parliament as a reaction to the growing threat of war between Prussia and France.