Word: streit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modest Monthly. In a spare, four-room suite in Washington, spare, mild-mannered Clarence (Union Now) Streit, 50, was about to launch Freedom & Union as "the journal of the World Republic that does not yet exist." Barring printing delays, the first modest issue of 20,000 copies would go to subscribers next week...
Almost immediately the peace planners found themselves divided, with some bitterness, into two unequal groups. The issue: Russia. The majority group, led by Clark, insisted that any world federation could not exclude the Soviet Union. A minority of five, led by Roberts and Clarence K. ("Union Now") Streit, wanted a "nuclear union with nations where individual liberty exists, as a step toward the projected world government...
...Latin homework and simultaneously listening to his favorite radio program, Mr. District Attorney. When the program ended he did not switch off the radio, because by then he was in the tub. Thus it was that he shortly heard a speaker advancing the merits of Clarence (Union Now) Streit's plan for a federal union of the world's democracies...
Young Mr. Wofford Jr. arose from his bath a convert. Bicycling around suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., he swiftly enlisted a number of his friends at Scarsdale High School in the first student chapter of Streit's Federal Union...
From their Washington office they distribute a monthly newspaper, the Student Federalist, which reaches nearly 40,000 readers. They are currently concentrating on a sales campaign for LIFE Editor David Cort's newly published The Great Union, a brief, eloquent, brilliantly illustrated restatement of Streit's thesis. Convinced that their cause has no more than a half-century in which to save mankind from a third world war, they have set their sights for these goals by 1950: 1) 100,000 student members; 2) 30,000 teacher members; 3) 25,000 student leaders trained in summer camps annually...