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Woodrow Wilson: Let it be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claim to power or leadership in the…

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Let it be said again that autocracy must first be shown the utter futility of its claim to power or leadership in the modern world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson asserts that autocracy must be shown its futility to lose its claim to power in the modern world.

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