"Everything seems to indicate that a decisive hour has sounded in the history of the world, the hour when an almost virgin continent and ignored races will cooperate in the work of humanity."
— Berlin Conference

January 1, 1970

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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 As Leopold II develops an increasingly authoritarian policy after the Berlin conference to consolidate the Congo Free State financially and diplomatically, Banning dreams of civilizing the "forgotten races" of black Africa BRUHAT, J. “Emile Banning”, 47.