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...town of Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
Tomorrow, the fifty-one sovereign states of the United Nations General Assembly will meet on ground that seven years ago was dedicated to the "World of Tomorrow." Here through all the skepticism, the haggling and the hot tempers, is another dedication to the future. Here, in once-swampy Flushing meadow is the machinery that may be the only effective antidote to the atom bomb, to germ warfare, to rocket missiles. Here, for all the uncertainly, intolerance, and misunderstanding, lies the last hope...
...Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade and industry of the entire area. And Britain would retain her essential Middle Eastern military base without interfering with sovereign peoples. Through judicious planning and large scale public works, the Jewish community could fit the large majority of European Jewry into the State within a period of several years...
...What is this sovereign remedy...
...Missouri-born Clarence Streit (rhymes with bright), the idea of a federation of free peoples is both a vision and a career. His favorite citation of its workability: the U.S., which was once a league of sovereign states. As a young A.E.F. veteran and U.S. attaché at Versailles, Streit saw the kind of peacemaking that followed World War I. As a New York Times correspondent at Geneva (1929-39), he saw the kind of peace-keeping that preceded World War II. His book Union Now urged a modified national sovereignty, an international federation of democracies. To promote the ideal...