"Never have I had the impression of such a moral and civic downfall. In no country, not even the last of the last, what is happening here would be possible."

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Congo Free StatePeople from BelgiumMembers of the Belgian ParliamentBelgian generalsPeople from Venlo
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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), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The Anti-Slavery Conference and the Relaxing Relationship with Leopold II Lambermont in a 1895 letter to Henri Alexis Brialmont after the failed attempt to annex the Congo State by Belgium. WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 113-114.