"It is experience, which will then inspire the interested Powers with the most favourable resolutions for the development of commercial progress in their possessions."
— Berlin Conference

January 1, 1970

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New Africa; an essay on government civilization in new countries, and on the foundation, organization and administration of the Congo Free State, EXEMPTION FROM CUSTOMS DUES, Page 64. Baron Auguste Lambermont, Protocoles et Acte general de la Conference de Berlin, p. 238.