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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2017
Autocracy and Democracy are mutually antagonistic. A dictatorship, whether that of the proletariat or one established by a totalitarian state, is a menace to popular government. We have all seen in the recent past how it has shown itself a foe to liberty; to freedom of the person, freedom of opinion and speech, freedom of the press, and hostile to religious toleration. Autocracy, relying upon force, is necessarily militaristic and readily assumes an aggressive attitude towards other forms of government.
1 St. Paul to the Romane, viii, 37.
2 See The Times (London), Apr. 29, 1919.
3 L’Illustration, March 5, 1938, p. 244, “Si l’on Avait Écouté Pershing.”
4 My diary, Jan. 27, 1918.
5 Archives of Department of State, History of the Treaty of Versailles.
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20 Address to the Congress, Apr. 2, 1917.
