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But it would not be reckless to say that from the start the King dreamed of founding a Belgian colony. Many times I have heard him say, when the Inde… - Eugène Beyens
" "But it would not be reckless to say that from the start the King dreamed of founding a Belgian colony. Many times I have heard him say, when the Independent State emerged from its swaddling clothes like a newborn baby trying to walk: "I work there for Belgium".
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Napoléon Eugène Louis Joseph Marie Auguste Beyens (Paris, March 24, 1855 - Brussels, January 3, 1934) was a Belgian diplomat and minister.
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The prevailing opinion at court was that the founding of a colony was beyond the strength of the Sovereign of a small state and that he would swallow up his private fortune, unable to create anything lasting. The King sought for the execution of his designs collaborators possessed of the faith which he himself had and which lifts mountains.
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