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...Squeeze Suez from the East...
...great straits which bottleneck the seas, only two remain exclusively under Allied control. Both are man-made straits. The Suez Canal serves to keep the Axis Navies apart. The Panama Canal serves to keep the U.S. Navy together. The loss of both or either of those canals might give the combined enemy worldwide naval parity. Without naval supremacy, expeditionary forces stay home...
...could, as well, cut off China's present lifeline and any alternates which the Allies might devise. He might, if he could get bases in Madagascar from the Vichy-french, interrupt the British supply line to Suez and the Middle East...
...this year Rommel might have reached Suez...
...From them Japan could raid the supply lines of Suez and India...