James Holland: belief

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…Maybe it’s a simplistic notion, but that could’ve changed the trajectory of human history right there. I really think it could’ve done. I think that’s much more grievous mistake than the Munich. Why are leaders so hesitant to meet? I’m told now by a bunch of diplomats that, “No, no, no, no. There’s a process. At first, you have to have these diplomats meet, and they have to draft a bunch of stuff.” I sometimes have the simplistic notion, like, why not meet? Why not meet? I think there is a human element there, of course, especially when there’s this force that is Hitler.…

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