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...authorized him, for purposes of defense, to "dismember" Brazilian states and convert them into Federal territories (like Alaska), governed from Rio de Janeiro under special laws. Vargas' new territories, carved from five states (Para, Amazonas, Matto Grosso, Paraná, Santa Catharina), create a strip of centrally controlled buffer areas along the frontiers between Brazil and nine of its neighbors...
...western and northern Europe, the Germans have no buffer lands to trade for time, or for a tenuous, temporary security. Occupied Denmark and Norway lie between Britain and the coast of north eastern Germany. But they are no places for rear-guard economy; they are places to be held as strongly and fiercely as the Germans would fight for their own coast. For, if they fall, the inner fortress will have been breached...
...first step should be a military alliance with the British Commonwealth. Said Republican Luce: " The British Empire is America's natural buffer state. . . . In the world scene, any scheme, however noble in concept, to maintain peace will in the last analysis be no better than the character and clarity of the relationships between the United States and the British Commonwealth...
...sympathy, have already shown a leaning toward Britain rather than toward a Pan Nordic bloc in which Sweden would be the largest power. The Swedes admire and respect the fighting qualities of the Finns and have done everything but go to war to keep Finland intact as a buffer against Russia. But the two peoples invariably get on each other's nerves. Business, trade and cultural interests strongly influenced Sweden to the pre-Hitler Germany. Now the Swedes despise the Germans. That leaves only Russia, which the Swedes learned to fear and distrust from their nursery rhymes...
...lesser European powers could maintain permanent security in Europe through a policy which alienated Russia and induced her to disinterest herself in Continental affairs would be sheer madness." This conception was a slap at the reported desire of the Vatican and of some circles in Washington to establish a buffer of anti-Russian states in Eastern Europe...