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RT Oe yon otis tree ehee tee mae kere spe s QUOTATIONS OF LEADING MILITARY AUTHORITIES “No foreign power or group of powers can operate across the ocean and stand in combst with the American Navy and planes operating from home bases.”—Admira!l William S. Sims, shortly before hia death. “Of course there is no possibility ever of any hostile attack on either of our coasta.”-—Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps, Nov. 18, 1935. “T do not think that any fleet could ever make a landing an effective force on our coast, whether we had a navy or not, provided there are enough shore- based aircraft available. . I do not think that any thinking person ever feela that any nation can suc- cessfully invade our country leaving out the air- craft or anything else.”—Rear Admiral Cook, 1938. “Considered from the defensive atandpoint Amer- ica is the strongest military nation on the earth— that is, it is the easiest nation to prepare for de- fensive warfare. It would not take much to make it invulnerable against any nation or combination of eetinn #hoég maaudbse La. Le be 22 big. weninna fa Fi CLE CLUES LEG CIRL BE UO FY DEAT SEaLINSL IL —Masjor General Hagood, 1937. “Our fleet IS LARGE ENOUGH TO HANDLE SIMULTANEOUSLY A COMBINATION OF EN- EMIES, being about as large as Britein'’s scattered _- fleet, considerably superior to Japan's, three times as large as Italy’s, four times stronger than Ger- many’s, only slightly inferior to the combined navies of all three totalitarian nations, and far stronger in naval aviation than any navy in the world.” , Hanson W. Baldwin, July, 1939. “Continental United States, even without the ex- traordinary defense measures pdopted by Congress, is well-nigh impregnable. So are its outlying pos- sessions, except the Philippines, Wake and Guam. Such impregnability can be brought to a point of completeness with relatively amajl additional effort.” —Hanson W. Baldwin, July, 1939. CAN HITLER INVADE AMERICA? Tuis little pamphlet is intended to answer the question—Can Hitler Invade America? This is a very important question. It ie important because Americans are told that this terrible war in Furnane is our war in LUrGpe if Gur Wer, It is called our war because, we are told, if Hitler defeats England the United States is next on the list. Having crushed England and taken the English navy, it is said, he will then INVADE AMERICA. And because so many people believe this to be true they are willing to go to any lengths to aid Britain to defeat Hitier. This whole argument turns on one point—that Hitler, after he defeats England, CAN INVADE AMERICA. And so the great question is -- CAN HE? Now then lat ano Biitiis Vu There is no doubt that Hitler and his great Nazi army is a powerful military machine. There is also no doubt that Hitler will step at nothing to gain his objectives—to take any country that he wants. He overran Czechoslovakia and Poland swiftly. Then he turned to overrun Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France in startling quick suc- cession. Because he could do this we are warned that he can do the same thing to the United States and that the only thing that protects us from Hitler is the British navy. Let us see therefore just what Hitler would require in order to invade the United States. First of all, we start out with the fact that all these countries put together — Poland, Czechoslo- vakia, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France —are much emaller than the United States. Their total populations equal 110,000,000, Our total population is 130,000,000. They were divided into seven different countries. Each one was small compared with Germany. They were scattered around Germany's rim. Hitler could attack each one separately. And each one —save France—was just a small morsel for him. But the United States is a unified country—a single nation—and the attack would be against the whole United States. In the next place, all these countries were right on Germany’s land frontiers. In each case all he had to do was to roll across their land borders and he was inside their gates. They had fortresses, barricades. But these were nothing against his vast mechanical equipment, When he had defeated France he turned te fieht England. Germany has France he turned ts fight England. Germany has 80 million population and a gigantic army and an sir force three times the size of Britain's. England has only 50 million people. But when Hitler turned on England there was the English Channel —only 23 miles wide at its narrowest point, This is only about half the distance from Washington to Baltimore: But when he faced that problem