Due to the continuing international and national criticism towards the Leopoldian regime, the Belgian government took over Congo Free State only after long negotiations, whereby Belgian Congo was born as a Belgian colony. Table of events with speeches held during the banquet of the Cercle Africain after Belgium took over Congo Free State, 1908.
NAB, Archives Hubert Droogmans, no. 345.
NAB, Archives Hubert Droogmans, no. 345.
