Henry Luce Quotes
American Century
He coined this phrase when he, a committed political conservative, called upon his conservative colleagues to abandon their isolationism and support the United States entering WWII as it was the American Century and America needed to take leadership on such an important element.
Henry Luce, 1898–1967, Publisher of Life and Time Magazines, 1941
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He was referring to the Early Cold War. The American official position and propaganda called for Russian military and political control of Eastern Europe to end and supported uprising and revolution, but the U. S. did not have the power to dislodge Russia without risking a nuclear war.
This was a warning to Saudi Arabia that the United States might seize the oil fields. At the time we were not getting enough oil for domestic needs and the military in Europe and in Vietnam. The King arranged to secretly supply oil to the United States while maintaining to the other Arab countries that it was maintaining the boycott of the West.
The Germans had invaded Russia. Most of the world thought the German Army was invincible. Stalin however, was historically right, and with U. S. material and weapons help, the Russians bore the brunt of Allied casualties, but also inflicted more casualties on the Nazi’s and were instrumental in their defeat.
The Iranians have longed to be a major world power ever since Alexander the Great conquered Persia. The aspirations of the Theocracy is not new. It was strong with the Shah and almost all Persians for 2 thousand years.
In the history of the Papacy. at different times, Popes have specified Catholic superpowers as the civic leader of the God’s world. However, this was the first time that a Pope had designated a majority Protestant country in this manner. Many see this quotation as striking support for the concept of American Exceptionalism.
Vidal was one of the first who suggested that America may be in a state of decline. He deliberately used the language of the famous, classic work by Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Congressman was being critical of the George W. Bush Administration and their tendency to decide which leaders and countries were legitimate and moral and which were not, and then invading the “bad” and executing the leaders as with Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
The Lenape Tribe (Delaware Tribe) were the strongest Indian nation in America until they were supplanted by the Iroquois and then dominated by the Colonial whites who took much of their land. See {592309}.
Henry Robinson Luce was an American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day". He launched and closely supervised a stable of magazines that transformed journalism and the reading habits of millions of Americans. Time summarized and interpreted the week's news; Life was a picture magazine of politics, culture, and society that dominated American visual perceptions in the era before television; Fortune reported on national and international business; and Sports Illustrated explored the world of sports. Counting his radio projects and newsreels, Luce created the first multimedia corporation. He envisaged that the United States would achieve world hegemony, and, in 1941, he declared the 20th century would be the "American Century".
