"Wherever this regime has been applied in one form or another, it has led to economic stagnation and decline and political revolt."
— Émile Banning

January 1, 1970

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Non-fiction authorsAcademics from BelgiumCatholics from BelgiumDiplomats of BelgiumPhilosophers from Belgium
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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), Emile Banning (1836-1898): The Don Quichotte of the ‘liberal civilization’ in Congo, Emile Banning's Colonial Career. ARAB, Papiers Banning, no. 156. With the same annotation: “…Its reading had a double effect: the King regarded an orthodox testimony and frank warning motivated by his interest and that of the country as an insult, and from then on suspended all