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|quote title=United States of Europe under the Nazi command
|book=Their Finest Hour
|author=Winston Churchill
|wmdsays=The following is a letter to Roosevelt trying to get him to strongly support France. Roosevelt wanted to enter the war probably but couldn't. Churchill was giving him ammunition with which to scare people in the US as to why the complete fall of Europe would also be the fall of the US.
|pages=167
|extract=From Former Naval Person to President Roosevelt  14-15, VI, 1940

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The fate of the British Fleet, as I have already mentioned to you, would be decisive on the future of the United States, because, if it were joined to the fleets of Japan, France, and Italy and the great resources of German industry, overwhelming sea power would be in Hitler’s hands. He might of course use it with a merciful moderation. On the other hand, he might not. This revolution in sea power might happen very quickly, and certainly long before the United States would be able to prepare against it. If we go down you may have a United States of Europe under the Nazi command far more numerous, far stronger, far better armed than the New World.

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