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. AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE = fl006922 0 visi 43 Bettiah navy or the French Army. These facts, too, have been. “confirmed by the develoments of the ware 0 gt. SiMe ; ne It was obvious that aviation, and the mechanization of er und "bh 2' 7 - forces, among other elements, placed Germany among othere in a stronger posi- >”. oe '., tion under Hitler than France was in under Napoleon, . Toy ead rate bia Bye tant) be el eet : me & “Y, gt ‘onc’ ta 7 T& was obvious that England lay within idea bombing ge of | aircraft based on the continent of Europe, and that her sea lanes could be - | harassed both by submarines and bombing planes. German objectives, on the other hand, wore farther removed from bases in the British Isles; so that even = :...°.: , , 4£ England and Germany had equal mumbers of fighting planes the advantage would’ still lie with Germany. a ee eS Oe Ton meee Soe It waa Just as obvious that the great distance across the ocean - Placed America outside the effective bombing range of European afroraft, and. that even if it were possible to establish European air bases in South America ° which I beliive we can prevent, the United States would still be outside of — their effective bombing range. vos ee bea 4 After I had traveled through the various nations of Burope . -~.-... and Asia, I came to the conclusion that there were two, and only two, great and natural air powers in the world at this time -ethe United States, inthe = ..- western hemisphere, and Germany, in the eastern hemisphere. I was convinced that neither was in a position to attack the other successfully across the ocean unless an interna) collapse preceded an invasion. It seems cleer to me. that the quickest way for Germany to lose the war would be to attack America.) and that the quickest way for America to lose a war would be to attack Germany. 4 QoS Subsea ei By way of Lllustration suppose we should follow the lead of ” woe 2 3i.ts° - the interventionists and enter a war against Germany, In that case, we must | "wend the great bulk of our armies, and supplies, and fuel, across the Atlantic eee ocean on ships « ships that would have to be built, for there are not enough oO in existance today. The vulnerability of the shipping to bombing planes, i. oS . faiders and sutmeries, has already been shown by British losses. Our cone. e " Yoys would be harassed in the Atlantic by Germany, and possibly in the Pacific. a by Japan at the same time, And under this harasszent by bombing plane, raider i; amd submarine we would have to find some way of forcing a landing, ona =. ~ me hostile coast. We would have to forse a landing against the prepared positions of the same army and air force that broke the Maginot line and orercame the British, French end Belgian armies sombined, We might easily find ourselves . —_ fighting, at one and the same time, the military forces of Germany, Italy, * > * «'. France, Spain, Jepan and other nations, with the natural resources of Russia yo available to them. And it is not at all inconceivable that before this war is : over, England herself may turn against us, as she has turned against France end Finland, Reasons are always found to justify whatever action a nation takes in time of war. It was no more improbable in 1939 that England would tum st against Finland and France, than it is*today that she will turn against ue if . LT ae eet ented . we - . - , : Shoe BAe aa ~ =- vs . oo . Tog LT te ty ” ~ md eo: » 2 OTF