Word: streit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave, he could return to edit Publisher Barry Bingham's prosperous Louisville Courier-Journal. But this week Agar turned up with a smaller platform to speak from and he was happy about it, too. In January, he will become the British Isles editor of Freedom & Union, Clarence Streit's small, earnest voice of federal world-government (TIME, Sept...
...Including Supreme Court Justice Burton, Washington Letter-Writer Kiplinger, Massachusetts' Senator Saltonstall, Federal Union's earnest Clarence Streit...
...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...
...help him tackle the great issue of "peace or war, freedom or tyranny, life or death," Streit has gathered an impressive array of aides, for most of whom the new monthly is a labor of love. His contributing editors: Owen J. Roberts, former U.S. Supreme Court justice; Russell W. Davenport, onetime managing editor of FORTUNE and Willkie campaign coordinator; Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College; A. Powell Davies, clergyman-author (The Faith of an Unrepentant Liberal); and youthful Harris Wofford Jr., founder of Student Federalists (the junior branch of Federal Union). Sparkplug of the eight full-time...
...newsstands, will sell only to subscribers (at $4 a year). To season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...