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...unarmed. With the Germans masters of Europe, U. S. European trade ($1,893,000,000 in 1938) will almost certainly dwindle or it will have to be conducted on Germany's disadvantageous barter terms. And if Britain loses, Germany will have 60% of the world's merchant fleet. She will control the docks of the world either directly, or by economic pressure. A shipment of American typewriters will have small chance of quick unloading and delivery in Capetown, if competing German typewriters can be got to the customer first...
...Fleet. U. S. isolation has been a practical foreign policy largely because Britain was friendly. For this arrangement, the U. S. repaid her. At the back door of Asia the U. S. Fleet has long stood guard, setting up outposts in the Philippines and Hawaii to prevent seizure of the Orient by pushing, expansion-set Japan. Today, with Britain fighting with her back to the wall, Admiral Richardson can keep his battle fleet based at Honolulu, only because the U. S.'s outposts in the Atlantic are still under the protection of a British Fleet...
...collapse of Britain and the loss of her fleet would plunge the U. S. into a defensive crisis. The U. S. Battle Fleet would have to go streaking for the Panama Canal and the Atlantic. The Pacific, to all intents, would have to be abandoned to Japan. And in the Atlantic Admiral Richardson might conceivably have to pit his great force against an armada of British, French, German and Italian ships, outnumbering him in tonnage more than...
Three Kinds of Evil. If Germany should win the Battle of Britain, what would become of the British Fleet? One extreme possibility is that it would withdraw, along with the British-controlled units of the French Fleet, to the Western Hemisphere, to carry on the war. The other extreme possibility is that it would go to Germany intact...
Probability, however, does not run to extremes. Before Britain could be beaten there is every likelihood that part, perhaps a substantial part of the British Fleet would be lost in the fighting around the British Isles. Even if the bulk of the British Home Fleet should be surrendered, units stationed in the Mediterranean, colonies and dominions, might well escape German hands. The practical hypotheses fall into three classes...