-13- the total private American foreign long term investments, it seems probable that the United States would lose all its investments in Europe, China, Africa and eventually Latin America. Even the Canadian tranche would greatly depreciate in value in consequence of the impoverishment of the mother country and the possible preponderant influence of the totalitarian states in the remainder of the Empire. The dislocation in the American economy and the necessary heavy armament expenses would so a1ter the balance of economic forces in the United States as to require a regimented industrial order under Government control. Such centralization would tend to reproduce, possibly under other names, the basic features of the Fascist state: to fight totalitarianism we would have to adopt totalitarian methods. 4.Ideological Effects The defeat of Britain and her allies would mean a tremendous impetus for totalitarianism in all those states which would fall under the domination of the victors. In all probability, political upheavals in Britain and France, as a consequence of defeat, would |