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History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.


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Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.



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Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.



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The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.



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