One of the first to use the term "Pax Americana" was the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy. In 1942, the Committee envisaged that the United States may have to supplant the British Empire. Therefore, the United States "must cultivate a mental view toward world settlement after this war which will enable us to impose our own terms, amounting perhaps to a Pax Americana". According to Swen Holdar, the founder of geopolitics Rudolf Kjellen (1864–1922) predicted the era of US global supremacy using the term "Pax Americana" shortly after World War I. Writing in 1945, Ludwig Dehio remembered that the Germans used the term "Pax Anglosaxonica" in a sense of Pax Americana since 1918: