Show ri six serious situations face america i if hitler Is by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN ne released leased ty by western newspaper union washington the authors of this column have received many inquiries as to whether in their opinion the united states will be dragged into the war var obviously this 2 is a question extremely difficult to answer however we have endeavored to set forth below the circumstances which are almost certain to exist after hitler is completely victorious in europe as it now seems he will be SITUATION NO 1 is the strong probability that there will be no lenient peace france and england jf if conquered will be made to feel the conquerors heel one reason for this is that hitler h himself knows know s how easy it is to rearm if the conquered nation is given half a chance it may be that his friend the duke of windsor as reported since the duke left his liaison post with the british army will be reinstated on the throne of england but if so he will be a mere puppet it is important to note that the united states has leaned heavily though indirectly upon the british fleet for this protection SITUATION NO 2 will be a nazi search for raw materials they will get some when they take france i and england but not nearly enough F france probably will cling to her most important areas in africa and may even set up a new government there britain should be able to keep enough of her fleet to make it difficult to penetrate the red sea to india japan will take singapore and the dutch east indies thereby cutting off the united states from vital tin and rubber meanwhile the richest least populated weakest continent in the world lies just a short airplane hop across the south atlantic protected only by a century old shibboleth called the monroe doctrine A SITUATION NO 3 will be local nazi governments in lat latin in america carlos carios davila former president of chile and now exiled in the united states long ago counseled the state department that if hitler ever was victorious in europe south american governments would emulate him davila is one of the shrewdest statesmen south america has ever developed and already the speech of brazilian president vargas inferentially approving italis stab in back clearly shows that davila was right vargas has received several millions from Roosevel ts export im port bank entertained roosevelt personally during his goodwill good will trip to south america sells 70 per cent of brazils coffee crop to the united states brazil is this count rys traditionally closest friend turned over its fleet to the U S A during the span ish american war and during the world war but today 50 per cent of the brazilian army is nazi and if vargas had not approved italis war entry he might have been out of power similar nazi sentiment exists in uruguay ecuador peru and chile for example the state department has just received a confidential telegram that chilean nazis actually are under arms SITUATION NO 4 which is all important latin american nations can set up local nazi governments without violating the monroe doctrine once those governments are established they can invite german and italian military advisers or police forces grant them naval and air bases and if the united states attempts to stop this it will have to oppose the local latin american government as well as nazi gerly many and fascist italy both of which have large groups of imm immigrants in south america if for instance the united states should send armed forces to brazil to prevent a german naval base from being established there other latin american nations again might raise the cry of yankee imperial ism the gatins are clannish and we night easily 11 ind find the entire continent up in arms against us siding with the nazis from whom we are defending them SITUATION NO 5 is a squeeze play pay on trade the fhe most important thing to remember about europe economically is that hitler today controls the biggest market in the world not only germany nany but austria czecho norway denmark holland ia belgium must order goods through his barter system in in other words if brazil wants to N Z ii 1 X the blitz training camp by thomas sell coffee to this area or argentina wants to sell meat or ecuador wants to sell cocoa they must barter with hitler even on a minor scale before the war 9 we have seen that this leads to friction trade reprisals national ill will it plants fertile seeds for war imagine the resentment of the southern states it if hitler as conqueror of england required all lan ca shires textile mills to buy cotton from brazil and peru it would almost bankrupt the south SITUATION NO 6 is the strong likelihood that all these situations will descend upon us soon hitler has shown that he knows time is of the essence he has been willing to sacrifice a million men perhaps more on the western front because he knows it the war lasts longer than september 1 his raw materials wont last also he knows that the united states is in a preparedness race and that within another 15 months we will be in a far stronger position to defend the western hemisphere himi sphere re today on thle the other hand he knows we are pitifully weak therefore it is more than likely that he will move fast nazi propaganda and undercover movements in south america already indicate this local nazi uprisings are sure to take place and with nazi fascist air lines already operating all over the country it would be a simple matter for a bomb laden nazi plane to slip over the panama canal army officers say it would even be difficult for them to know whether it was a friendly pan american plane and they might not fire at it dictators have shown that they know how to work together and you can be sure that when and if japan germany and italy get ready to put the squeeze on the uni united ted states they will have worked 0 out ut their cooperation to the last T we will be squeezed from both the atlantic and the pacific and perhaps from south america in other words war for the united states depends largely upon whether or not we are going to defend or abandon the monroe doctrine |