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...would have to come to terms with the Empire for the use of the fleet in a coordinated plan to control the seas. The U. S. has not lent its fleet for the defense of Britain, and Britain would be less than sensible if she lent her fleet for the defense of the U. S. without at least some guarantee that the U. S. would become the open ally of the Empire. The U. S. has not the force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow...
...Enough of the British Fleet will be destroyed or will surrender to Germany so that the U. S., to remain secure in the Atlantic, must withdraw its fleet from the Pacific...
...this hypothesis there are many variations. A third of the British Fleet might be grabbed by Germany or surrendered. Or a third might make its way across the Atlantic. But in any degree of the hypothesis, next step for Germany and the U. S. would probably be the greatest naval race of all time. The U. S. Fleet would have to be brought into the Atlantic, for Japan does not present a threat of invasion from the West in any way comparable to Germany's threat from the East...
...start in such a naval race. But her yards are running at capacity. And Germany already has the shipbuilding yards of France, plus her own. If the Battle of Britain should give Adolf Hitler not only the British yards but the partly completed ships of Britain's Fleet-to-be (seven battleships, seven carriers, 23 cruisers, 32 destroyers, ten submarines, plus smaller ships and any others secretly laid down since last September)-the U. S. would be in a tight spot...
...much of the British Fleet will surrender to Germany that the Axis will become the major naval power in the Atlantic even with the entire U. S. Fleet in that ocean...