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"The more we increase in numbers, the more we starve and become poorer. ... Either our population will shrink, or our territory will expand."

— Émile Banning

January 1, 1970

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Non-fiction authors Academics from Belgium Catholics from Belgium Diplomats of Belgium Philosophers from Belgium

Original Language: English

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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, A romantic associate of Leopold II. E.B. La Belgique doit être agrandie. Hoei, 1882, 16-17.

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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, A romantic associate of Leopold II. E.B. La Belgique doit être agrandie. Hoei, 1882, 16-17.