"It's my ruin you stipulate and you can't want it."
— 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 Belgian Diplomat Banning supported the financing of the necessary railways inside the Congo to be funded by the more internationalized AIC, Leopold II, who preferred to take out a private loan himself and wanted to leave the AIC as it was, Leopold II opted for more financial secu