It is idle for us or for others to preach that the masses of the people who constitute those Nations which are dominated by the twin spirits of autocracy and aggression, are out of sympathy with their rulers, that they are allowed no opportunity to express themselves, that they would change things if they could.
He critiques the notion that the oppressed masses in autocratic nations are disconnected from their rulers' actions.
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