Read this excerpt from president roosevelts four freedoms speech armed defense of democratic existence is now being galley waged in four continents if that defense fails all the population and all the resources of europe, asia, africa and australasia will be dominated by the conquerors let us remember that the total of those populations and their resources in these four continents greatly exceeds the sum total of the population and the resources of the whole western hemisphere many times over what is the theme of this excerpt? a. a dismissal of the current threat b. atonement for colonial policies c. the enormity of the threat to democracy d. a plea for international cooperarion