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...would have to pay for upkeep of the fleet, in the long run might even have to provide manpower for replacements of battle casualties...
...Enough of the British Fleet might escape capture so that it would still remain the major naval force in the Atlantic...
...much of the British Fleet would be enough to dominate the Atlantic cannot be precisely answered. That depends partly on the types of vessels which escaped and also on the losses of the Axis Fleet. In a general way, if less than a third of the British Fleet is lost to Nazi air attacks, torpedoes, mines and naval attack, the rest would be roughly equal in tonnage to the present U. S. Fleet. Whether it could protect the North American seaboard and still keep open the sea routes to Africa, while the U. S. Fleet stayed in the Pacific...
...Such a fleet would constitute considerable protection for the U. S. but the protection would have a price. In the nature of things this price would have to include...
...British Fleet would have to use U. S. bases from Portsmouth to Charleston, possibly on down to the Canal Zone...