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resources, she is going to back the control of the oceans 
      by the democracies, which has been the ultimate basis of her 
      own and their security in the past, or whether she is going to 
      let it go, allow the totalitarian powers to dominate not only 
      Europe and Asia but the oceans also both politically and economically, 
      and content herself with building up an armed ring fence round 
      North America by occupying all vital positions l000 miles from 
      her shores. On that view the retreat of the democracies has gone 
      so far, that there is, for the United States, now no middle course, 
      for if she allows the European democracies to be defeated or 
      squeezed into submission, she will no more be able to rely upon 
      the armed resources of Britain and France in a crisis than they 
      can now rely upon the armed resources of Czechoslovakia. The 
      world, in fact, outside America will be totalitarian. From one 
      point of view this analysis leads back to the Wilsonian thesis 
      - that the United States must enter the struggle once more to 
      "make the world safe for democracy" by overthrowing, 
      by defeat or propaganda, the dictatorial systems.
 
      
 
 
But there is another possibility. One of the most formidable 
      pressures to-day, making for poverty, Communism or Fascism, arises 
      from the political anarchy of Europe. Both the old British system 
      of the balance of power and the League of Nations perpetuated 
      the anarchy of armies, tariffs and sovereignties in Europe. The 
      integration of Europe, either by a voluntary federation or through 
      the dominating influence of one or more great powers is long 
      overdue, and is essential to a decent level of living for its 
      people and to peace. It is, in fact, taking place in the latter 
      form through tile predominance of the Third Reich to-day. That 
      may be fatal to France and England alone. But it would not be 
      fatal to a democratic world united in self-defence. It is not 
      impossible that peace and