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"Since the moment I have met Hutton, I have been preparing the organisation of commerce in Congo", Strauch wrote to Leopold II in a letter of 20 November 1879. The sovereign used a philantropic masquerade to veil the real goal of his African undertaking: trade and profit. Microfilm copy of a letter from the sovereign to Strauch, 1879.
NAB, Papers Maximilien Strauch, Film 2740. The original document is preseved at the NPO Dynasty and Cultural Heritage.
NAB, Papers Maximilien Strauch, Film 2740. The original document is preseved at the NPO Dynasty and Cultural Heritage.
