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the necessity of weighing the consequences to the world
in general and to the United States in particular of the
success of the German armies in Europe.
 
 
The United States id the only power in the world which
can effectively oppose Hitler now and in the future and he
knows it. It is easy to say that it may be assumed that
the territory of the United States is safe in so far as
Nazi aspirations are concerned or even that in the post-war
plan of the regime a world is envisaged in which the United
States will maintain its established position in cooperation
which the German hegemony in its extended spheres of 
influence, and the utterances of Hitler himself would tend
to quiet any fears to the contrary. The development of
Nazi aims in the past, however, and the contradiction in
fact which have characterized his other assurances would
not justify any belief in those assumptions. It is also
easy to assume that, even if Hitler intends to launch an
offensive against the Western Hemisphere, the United States,
with the assistance of the British and French fleets, can
oppose and destroy Hitler after he has established his
domination in Europe; and, finally, the assumption may be
offered that as there is a limit to what the power galvanized
by one human being can achieve, time and the extension of
that power will eventually negative its effectiveness.
 
 
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