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Let me first introduce you to Walthère Frère-Orban and Jules Van Praet. Frère-Orban was deeply, deeply opposed to Leopold's pet project which he called 'louche et hypocrite'. One of his memorandums mentions the existence of a brief report where Leopold distances himself from his African posts. According to Frère-Orban, Van Praet once approached with said report and asked him what to do with it. Frère-Orban told him to bury it deep. He apparently agonised himself over an possible response; he would get great satisfaction of being the one to sabotage Leopold's plans, on the other hand, he considered himself a Belgian patriot. Let's say that his hatred of Leopold beats his patriotism and he secretly leaks the statement where Leopold distances himself from his African posts in the Congo to the European representatives in Brussels in January 1885. What next?
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