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...hypothetical case which suddenly alters the whole outlook for U. S. national security. The article which follows is in no sense a prediction. It explores the immediate problem of U. S. Defense. What the U. S. people choose to do or not to do about the British Fleet is incomparably more important than any other decision they can make about National Defense in the summer...
...important part of the answer to this question is obvious. If the British Isles should now be overwhelmed, the inescapable fact is that there will be a new mistress of the seas. None of Britain's dominions has the financial or industrial resources to support the fleet that ruled the waves even if it is not destroyed or made captive...
...greater part of its history the U. S. has lived under the umbrella of protection provided by the British Fleet. Until World War I the U. S. never attempted to claim naval parity and by that time was thoroughly satisfied with a century-old tacit understanding which made the two fleets not rivals but complements of each other...
...bifurcated beard, whose active service extended to 1916. The brief German naval tradition is of daring, offensive, individual action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral Erich Raeder with a new Nazi Fleet, of pocket battleships...
...went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol, of spectacled, bluff Admiral James Otto Richardson, 1940's CINCUS, whose fleet lies in the Pacific while the Japanese Navy waits-and waits...