The stay in Madrid having made me lose the few illusions I still had about the Philippines affair, I asked and already obtained, several months ago, permission to no longer deal with it and since then, I had never heard of it again.

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 8. The Short Colonial Careers of Jules Greindl, Eugène père Beyens, Eugène Napoléon Beyens and Maximilien Strauch, A Skeptical Jules Greindl (1835-1917) The Philippine colonization project became an illusion. Indeed, the Catholic Belgian government under Malou refused to cooperate, and neither Greindl nor Leopold II himself were able to raise the required capital. Their attempts to borrow money from the London city banks failed because their plans for the British bankers seemed too vague without guarantees from the Belgian state. When peace gradually returned to the Spain of Alfonso XII in 1875, Leopold II had to resign himself to his failure. EMERSON, B. Léopold II¸ 62.