Hughes said cheerfully to his brother, "There's no need to worry about that at all. To put it bluntly, if East Africa does attack, the Belgian Congo can only surrender, and it's impossible for a large-scale war like those in Europe to happen."
"We only have a population of several hundred thousand here, and most are immigrants from the Far East. If East Africa really had ambitions toward the Belgian Congo, they could have acted on them over a decade ago."
"After all, although East Africa is located in Africa, the general impression of Africa doesn't represent East Africa as a nation. East Africa has a population exceeding one hundred million, a strong military, and industrial capabilities comparable to European countries. We, the Belgian Congo, have no chances against East Africa, let alone now when the homeland has become a battlefield and can't even care for the colony in the Belgian Congo."
