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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.

Adam Hochschild

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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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