"(Signed) Leopold.
"Brussels, June 3, 1906."
Having read this, no really right-minded person can deny that the King speaks of the Congo as private property which he surrenders voluntarily to Belgium, which he was quite at liberty to do, and which Belgium was equally at liberty to accept as a Royal gift.
But there is no right without duty.
I ask whether it was right of the Belgian Government to ruin me, an exile and a prisoner, calumniated and mistrusted; to deny me my Belgian nationality, and to sequestrate the little money left me in Belgium?
This, I have said before, was, I believe, the fatal result of a general measure, misinterpreted perhaps by an inexpert official.
But let it go!!
I only ask whether the Belgian Government can assert to-day that it has fulfilled the conditions imposed on it by its benefactor, and especially "the obligation to respect the integrity of the revenues of the various institutions" established by the King in favour of the Congo.
I await an answer. I now come to the question of the Will.
Will of the King. (Document No. 42.)