"Obviously, we are leaving the humanitarian and scientific plan to risk a business whose commercial aspects seem to lack sufficient bases, and which, on top of that, seems fraught with national and international difficulties."

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Congo Free StateFormer countriesInternational Association of the CongoInternational African AssociationHistory of Central Africa
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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), 8. The Short Colonial Careers of Jules Greindl, Eugène père Beyens, Eugène Napoléon Beyens and Maximilien Strauch, A Skeptical Jules Greindl (1835-1917) Meanwhile, the spring had broken with Baron Jules Greindl. Two years earlier, he had been accepted as secretary-general of an organization that set itself an international humanitarian and neutral mission, but s