other. If the United States is stronger than Britain in industrial resources  
and man power, the Commonwealth and Empirehave greater stores of some essential  
raw materials, geographical positions, bases and above all a tradition of sea  
power which is indispensable to the United States. Indeed it may be that in  
air power she will, by her longer experience, be also in a stronger position  
than the United States at the end of the war. In the matter of defense therefore,  
the interests of the two countries are closely similar and their contributions  
complementary. Even the exposed geographical position of Britain is in a sense  
an advantage to the United States, since it provides that country with a base  
in the hands of a well tested friend through which danger can be kept away from  
                      her own shores.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
5.  It is assumed that the nations of the Commonwealth will be ready to follow  
the lead of the Mother Country in desiring close relations with the United  
States. There is also every reason to suppose that the partnership will be the  
more palatable to the United States because the Dominions share init. When the  
defeat of Britain was considered to be imminent, it was widely assumed that a  
connection would be established between the Dominions and the United States.  
A permanent defense connection has been established between Canada and the United  
States. It is recognized also that so long as Britain endures she will be the  
centre of Dominion loyalty and that this cannot be transferred under a LendLease  
stipulation to the United States. The existence of the common loyalty of the  
Dominions to the Crown, while in some ways it may make more difficult the  
organization of Anglo-American relations, adds much to British bargaining power,  
and counter-balances to some extent the superior white population and resources  
                   of the United States.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
6.  The non-self-governing parts of the Empire make the situation more  
difficult. It is not likely that the United States would wish to accept any  
responsibility towards India except in so far as she accepts responsibility  
for world security. She already has a special interest in the West Indian   
possessions and it is possible that her economic interests in Malaya and her  
strategic interests in Singapore might induce her to accept special responsibilities  
there. In Africa she would only be specially interested in that portion which  
might be used as a base against the Americas, and she is but little interested  
strategically or economically in the Middle East. There would be in the United  
s very strong feeling against any guarantee of the Empire as
 
                                                            
 
 
7.  The history and traditions of both countries militate against a close  
fusion. Such a connection as federal union implies is not supported by any  
responsible politician in