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How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?
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About withdrawing diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in favor of the People's Republic of China

 

Janio Quadros

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Tell us you lost 6 million. Historians, scholars, scientists, they went to some of the death camps. It wasn't 6 million, it wasn't 5 million, it wasn't 4 million, it wasn't even 3 million. Some of them say we'd be hard-pressed to get 1 1/2 million. Reports on the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis were bloated, exaggerated, probably fabricated.

 

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The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

 

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