In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives._x005F_x000D_ Â _x005F_x000D_ Autocracy and bureaucracy must perish utterly, in East and West, and, _________ order that their germs may not re-sprout in the future, they must be___________ in the minds of men. They must be proved to be less efficient _________ the Governments of Free Peoples, even in their favourite work of War, and their iron machinery--which at first brings outer ___________ and success--must be shown to be less lasting and effective than the living and flexible organisations ________ democratic Peoples._x005F_x000D_ Â _x005F_x000D_ be less efficient _________ the Governments_x005F_x000D_

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• D. by