-13-
the total private American foreign long term investments,
it seems probable that the United States would lose all its investments
in Europe, China, Africa and eventually Latin America. Even the
Canadian tranche would greatly depreciate in value in consequence
of the impoverishment of the mother country and the possible
preponderant influence of the totalitarian states in the remainder
of the Empire.
The dislocation in the American economy and the necessary heavy
armament expenses would so a1ter the balance of economic forces
in the United States as to require a regimented industrial order
under Government control. Such centralization would tend to reproduce,
possibly under other names, the basic features of the Fascist
state: to fight totalitarianism we would have to adopt totalitarian
methods.
4.Ideological Effects
The defeat of Britain and her allies would mean a tremendous
impetus for totalitarianism in all those states which would fall
under the domination of the victors.
In all probability, political upheavals in Britain and France,
as a consequence of defeat, would