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The doctrine of state ownership of land established since 1890 is the exact opposite of free trade, the new doctrine is reprehensible, going against both the natural rights of the indigenous people who will be deprived, and the rights of the Imperial powers as determined in the act of Berlin.

— Émile Banning

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You may want to, Sire, but then you will find someone other than me to carry out such a will.

The King isolates himself and becomes less and less accessible to our advice.

Everything seems to indicate that a decisive hour has sounded in the history of the world, the hour when an almost virgin continent and ignored races will cooperate in the work of humanity.

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Wherever this regime has been applied in one form or another, it has led to economic stagnation and decline and political revolt.

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