ABSTRACT
VICTORY of the German-Japanese Alliance in Europe and Asia would have been a serious threat to the security of the United States even if we had not become a full belligerent in the fall of 1941.It would have meant the encirclement of the New World by the Old. Japan would have obtained control of the opposite coast of the Pacific from Bering Strait to Tasmania,and Germany,the opposite shore of the Atlantic from the North Cape to the Cape of Good Hope.There is nothing in the history of international relations or in the nature of power politics that permitted us to assume that,in case the conquest of the Old World by the Eurasianalliance were achieved,the struggle for power would automatically cease.On the contrary,there was every reason to believe that it would continue and German policies in Latin America had already clearly indicated that,in the Nazi conception of the New World Order,there was no room for an independent regional organization of the Western Hemisphere.It was to be split up into a southern continent to be controlled from Berlin and a northern continent within which the United States was to be fully isolated.Our entry into thewar did not change this aspect of world politics,it merely gave us an opportunity to defend ourselves before the domination of the Old World had been achieved. But if,not with standing our participation,our allies should be defeated abroad,complete encirclement would still become a reality.
