5/7/2023 0 Comments Battle fleet 2 atlantic![]() ![]() For the United States the Atlantic atmosphere was cleared.īut the same world upheaval, which had so greatly enhanced our military and commercial prestige and had solved our problems in the Atlantic, had, simultaneously, added to the military and commercial prestige of a possible rival in the Pacific. This same equal had, in an inconceivably short time, developed a merchant marine from almost nothing to one which threatened the supremacy of England's mighty commercial fleet. Vanished also was the great German commercial web which was being spun so rapidly and efficiently about South America.įor the first time in centuries Great Britain accepted the idea of a naval equal on the seas. The great High Seas Fleet-the German navy-was no more. With its close came a vast re-arrangement of world forces, political, military and economic. The division of the fleet between the two coasts of the United States was postponed for several years by the World War. Fortunately, England's interests and those of the United States lay in the same direction and for years not the Monroe Doctrine, not the American navy, but the navy of Great Britain was the real barrier which interposed between Germany and German territorial acquisitions in South America. The navy of the United States at this time was, numerically, a poor third. Her commercial colonization of South America, if not actually intended to develop into immediate political colonization, threatened, by its thoroughness and rapidity of growth, eventually to become as effective as if it were political in fact and gave promise of bringing up many delicate political problems in the future.īetween Germany and her rapidly materializing South American dreams stood the nominal barrier of the Monroe Doctrine of the United States which was and is and always will be equal in actual force to the strength of the navy of the United States -but no stronger. The rich, undeveloped continent of South America was the mine which in large part contributed to both and from which Germany was rapidly quarrying the foundation stones upon which she proposed to rear her structure of world commercial and military dominion. ![]() The larger navy afforded protection to the larger merchant marine and inspired German merchants with the confidence necessary for embarking on vast commercial conquests the larger merchant marine was the carrier of the wealth which made the larger navy possible. Their simultaneous growth was, in fact, interdependent each was supplementary to and promoted the other. The commercial expansion of Germany in South America had been no less rapid than her naval expansion at home. ![]()
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