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Charles Sumner: “It is by foreign loans that her railroads have been built and her wars aided.”

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It is by foreign loans that her railroads have been built and her wars aided.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner points out that foreign loans have been crucial for Russia's infrastructure and military efforts.

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