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Show Record Shows Hitler ( Planned To Fight U. S. f The thesis recently expound ed by former President HerW Hoover that the United s2 should have stayed out of (S World War and that Japan woES ( not have attacked us without 2 1 vocation seems to be based on lh1" assumption that the Axis aeerJf sors did not intend to fieht v f United States. B 1 f It is interesting to note captured enemy documents m ' lished by the Navy DepartS ,: that Hitler thought of occuSffif Spam but was afraid the BrS ' would seize the Azores and ei ' them to the United States S f; nc wouia lose the "only facii for attacking America, if IU should enter the war," withlf long-range Messerschmitts E The record shows that on JuhV 6, 1940, the German Naval ffi was uncertain of the fate of ihS Great British Empire but reason ; ably certain that Great Brifiafs would look to the United State If for support. Because of our? "great interest in a strong Bri tain in Euope," the Staff con- eluded that this country would V be forced to be hostile to Go - r many On that date, the tw0r 'Anglo-American powers" werer denominated "the next natural " enemies with which Germanr' will have to deal! U Two months later, the Germar Staff expressed the opinion tha' " the British Empire would notf collapse and Admiral Raeder expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the United Un-ited States "will hardly support the British Motherland with significant sign-ificant amounts of materiel and personnel." This was a bad guess in view of the fact that the United Un-ited States furnished the British with $31,000,000,000 in LeniC Lease goods. fi These documents seem to sup L port the belief that, in the grandiose gran-diose scheme of German leaders the United States was recognized as an enemy to be taken care of-at of-at the proper time. The "propr 7 time" was when Germany ha. finished off the British and th j Russians, but, as history records ,; ' the "proper time" did not ar-j rive. J I |