fleet there. The older un-modernized ships will have to go 
      for convoy. Thus even in the battleship class we are at full 
      extension.
 
      
 
 
9. There is a second field of danger: the Vichy Government 
      may either by joining Hitler's new order in Europe or through 
      some maneuver such as forcing us to attack an expedition dispatched 
      by sea against free French Colonies, find an excuse for ranging 
      with the Axis Powers the very considerable undamaged naval forces 
      still under its control. If the French Navy were to join the 
      Axis, the control of West Africa would pass immediately into 
      their hands with the gravest consequences to our communication 
      between the northern and southern Atlantic, and also affect Dakar 
      and of course thereafter South America.
 
      
 
 
10. A third sphere of danger is in the Far East. Here it seems 
      clear that the Japanese are thrusting Southward through Indo 
      China to Salgon and other naval and air bases, thus bringing 
      them within a comparatively short distance of Singapore and the 
      Dutch East Indies. It is reported that the Japanese are preparing 
      five good divisions for possible use as an overseas expeditionary 
      force. We have today no forces in the Far East