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The answers to these assumptions, however, are that no opposition
from across the Atlantic can check the impetus gained
by the possibility of the extension of Nazi power from Bordeaux
to Vladivostok and, furthermore, that the policy of 
fatigue and hopelessness which is already manifest in the
people of all countries will, before the Nazi regime becomes
ineffective, develop into a sense of despair with the same
destruction of material, social and spiritual values which
has marked the establishment of the Soviet regime in Russia.
 
 
The position of America, therefore, is clear. There
will be no place for the United States in the world envisaged
by Hitler, and he will exercise his power with a view to 
eliminating it as a great power as soon as possible. He
will not attack the Americas by force, as he can attain his
aims by other methods, once he has established his domination 
over the countries of Europe. He will strangle the United
States economically and financially and even if he does
not succeed in breaking down the solidarity of the countries
of the Western Hemisphere which may be precarious at present,
he will confront the United States within a brief measure
of time with the impossible task of adjusting its system
to an economy in whihc it will be excluded from access to
all foreign markets. The fight, therefore, which is now being
waged in Europe is a war for the preservation of the
 
 
American