You might argue that the last time it happened -- and that's what Housman felt coming and what Churchill felt too -- was that when power passed from the old nations, the old powers of Europe, across the Atlantic to the new emerging power of the United States of America -- the beginning of the American century.
Možemo se neslagati kada se zadnji put dogodilo, ali ono što su predosjećali Housman i Churchill je to da se moć počela prelijevati iz starih naroda, starih sila Europe preko Atlantika u novu mladu silu - Sjedinjene Američke Države -- čime je počelo američko stoljeće.