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In 1939, the French proposed that they give the Americans their Pacific and Caribbean possessions and a 10 billion dollar lump sum in exchange for the right to buy an unlimited number of planes on credit.

Let's say this happens. How does the US organize the Caribbean Territories?


One might be inclined to think that all the territories should be lumped together, but that's circumspect. Guadeloupe and Martinique speak French. St Barthelemy and St Martin speak English and English-Creole though.

I think it is likely that at some point the US would try to get the Dutch side of the island. The US bullied the Dutch during the war OTL w/ regards to Suriname, so a cession of Dutch St Martin seems probable. Perhaps Saba and Sint Eustatius as well.

Perhaps the US Virgin Islands, St Barthelemy, and American St Martin be lumped together as the American Leeward Islands.

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