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...year-old Louis Streit now proudly recalls: "He was always worrying about people who were bad off in India and other foreign places." Clarence was classified by his family as an idealist like his late mother, Emma Kirshman Streit. Her motto was: "'I can't never did do anything." Clarence believed in the motto...
Lofty Heads. New York Timesman Clarence Kirshman Streit, after a decade in Geneva observing the rise & fall of the League of Nations, published his Union Now in 1939. His basic proposal: that the "Atlantic democracies" (the U.S., Britain, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium', the Scandinavian countries) form a "nuclear union" with common citizenship, currency, interstate trade, communications. Throughout the U.S., earnest, forward-looking citizens formed local committees to push the idea. Three years ago, in noisy convention at Cleveland, the local groups were consolidated as Federal Union...
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