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permitted North and South America to enjoy the unusual advantage 
      of being able to evolve along their own lines without interference 
      form Europe?
 
      
 
 
The Pax Britannica, which fostered the expansion of liberal 
      institutions, vanishes with the defeat of Britain. The little 
      countries, from Belgium via Scandinavia to the Baltic States, 
      Poland, Spain, Portugal, the Balkans, Turkey, Iran and Trans-Jordania, 
      would be forced to make terms with the totalitarian victors. 
      Thus, the disintegration of the British Empire would mean that 
      the United States would face alone a hostile concentration of 
      a great part of the combined peoples of Europe and perhaps even 
      those of an Asia dominated by Japan.
 
      
 
 
The sullen and half starving populations of the defeated nations, 
      bitterly resentful against those who thought like them but hesitated 
      to give aid, might be persuaded, if offers were held out of material 
      improvement in their lot, to assist their oppressors to beat 
      down the last stronghold of democracy. The Latin American States, 
      many of which have been built up by their dictators, would tend 
      to come under the sway of new rulers of Europe.