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...Vote for Culbertson...
That was an interesting and enlightening Background for Peace. . . . But there was one thing about it that bothered me - the rather lukewarm and qualified nature of the praise bestowed on Ely Culbertson's World Federation Plan...
Since the Culbertson Plan was condemned as a confederation in which too little sovereignty is surrendered by the member states to make possible an effective world government, and since at the same time it was admitted that it would be impossible at this time to obtain enough surrender of sovereignty by national states to permit the creation of a true federation, the implication was that we should work for a United States of the World which, though unattainable now, might be founded at some future date when public opinion had changed and nationalism diminished...
...superior merits of a true federation of the world. But I am not going to waste any energy working for this ideal at the present time. I want to back a plan that has a chance of being adopted in the immediate future. . . . The plan for me is Mr. Culbertson...
Italians (except their generals) are the happiest in captivity. They play boccie (a bowling game) and bridge (Culbertson). Both Germans and Italians play their own brand of basketball and soccer-the Germans a particularly energetic variety which keeps some of them in hospital with "soccer knee...