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W. E. B. Du Bois - What do nations care about the cost...
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? (W. E. B. Du Bois)

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

W. E. B. Du Bois

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