The Comité advised the companies that had already consented: "must proove very severe in the selection of them". This concern woudl prove to be founded. the visit of Congolese évolués played a major role in the run-up to independence. Minutes of the 754th meeting of the Comité Intérieur Colonial.
NAB, Archives Société générale de Belgique, Comité Intérieur Colonial, folder 25.
NAB, Archives Société générale de Belgique, Comité Intérieur Colonial, folder 25.