A clash of two ordering concepts—Nazi Lebensraum and Anglo-American liberty, one even more limitless than the other—was inevitable. The message to Hitler from Roosevelt and his supporters in the American public could not have been clearer. There was no room for the Third Reich, and Hitler knew it. If the Americans were securing the Western Hemisphere today, tomorrow it would be the world.
This is a lot to hang on a Henry Luce quote…
