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America has at one bound become a world-power in a sense she never was before.
— Message to the American people on the signing of the war resolution, April 6 1917
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker declares that America has suddenly taken a place among the world's great powers, to a degree it never held before. The words present this as a decisive leap rather than gradual change, and mark it as a new level of international weight and responsibility.
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