 In January 1953, he replaced Jungers as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo, the senior administrative position in the Belgian colonies.As Governor-General, he received the visit of King Baudouin to the Congo in 1955 and worked on plans to create a "Belgian-Congolese Community" which would bring Belgians and Congolese into a more egalitarian relationship.His term also saw the first stirrings of anticolonial nationalism in the colony.