The Archive · 1938

Premier Allays Fears For Belgian Congo

Assurances from Britain — France and Germany

Brussels, Dec. 2.

Replying to a question at a meeting, yesterday, of the Colonial Commissions of the. Chamber and the Senate, M. Paul-Henri Spaak, the Prime Minister, said that he was surprised to see that Belgian opinion had again been disturbed about the future of the Congo, since the Government had received formal assurances, from Great Britain, France and Germany, that the Congo would remain integrally the property of Eelgium.

M. Pierre, Ryckmans, Governor-General of the Belgian Congo, who was present at the meeting, gave details on the steps which were being taken to protect the Congo Estuary.

He said that Fort Kinshasa woul

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