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...will note that I am looking at the matter from a purely business angle. Need I draw anyone's attention to the position of the United States should the British fleet surrender to a victorious Germany...
...convoy service, a sufficient number of British destroyers might be the difference between success and failure in repelling a German invasion of Britain by sea. But next to trawlers, destroyers have also suffered most from air bombings. Up to last week Britain had lost 23 of her pre-war fleet of 192 destroyers. The question that Navy men pondered was whether the U. S. might therefore be safer if it sold 50 of its old World War I destroyers (out of a fleet of 230) to help save Britain...
...with Army bombers and the U. S. Navy vigorously interdicting his supply lines from Europe, setting up such a base would be no cinch. To do so would take a huge fleet which probably would have to get a foothold in South America (preferably on Brazil's jutting coast 1,000 miles from the Cape Verde Islands) before extending himself to the north...
...deep harbor can accommodate any units of the Fleet...
...this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...