Question

Analyze the excerpt below from Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress (1917). Let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. Our object is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of those principles. The menace to peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honour steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.What does Wilson think is the greatest threat to freedom in the world? Select the quotation from the excerpt where he describes this danger.

Answer 1

Answer:

**in the existence of autocratic governments backed by an organized force that is totally controlled by their will, not by the will of their people.**

Explanation:

An autocratic government has an illegitimate power base, since it is not elected by the power of the people as a linclon indication if it is not taken by force and held in terror against the people, the autocratic government, inhibits the basic human rights of man and does not allow the freedoms of people's power to be expensed or given.