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      Germany, the East Indies and Malaya.
 
      
 
 
7. That India has become an independent federation, torn by 
      internal strife, and struggling against pressure from Germany 
      and Japan.
 
      
 
 
8. That Canada has thrown in her lot with the United States, 
      and that the British West Indies have been annexed by the United 
      States at their own request.
 
      
 
 
9. That Australia and New Oealand may have been forced to 
      accept imposed terms, providing for the opening of Australia 
      to Japanese immigration and their subjection to economic control 
      by Japan.
 
      
 
 
On the basis of these assumptions three groups of Powers would 
      stand face to face in the world:
 
      
 
 
a) A totalitarian coalition formed by the Berlin-Rome axis- 
      dominant in Europe and Africa.
 
      
 
 
b) Japan dominant in Asia and the Eastern Pacific.
 
      
 
 
c) A predominantly democratic group consisting of the U.S.A., 
      Canada and the Latin-American Republics.
 
      
 
 
The extent to which the defeat and disintegration of the British 
      Empire as indicated above would affect the interests of the United 
      States (1) strategically, (2) politically, (3) commercially and 
      (4) ideologically, is examined below.