Word: streit
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Without even so much as an apology to Lippmann or a bow to the Pope or Clarence Streit, Adler admits toward the end of his book that perhaps leagues and alliances and regional enlargements of the "Peace-Group" have something to be said for them. With the air of a schoolmaster granting his pupils a brief holiday of the spirit, Adler counsels his readers to support or at least not interfere with a revived League of Nations. For a League or a Confederation might, he thinks, help accustom people to the idea of a single sovereign government for the world...
CLARENCE K. STREIT...
...TIME, wrong on Sparkplug Schultz, assures Unionist Streit that 1) some of its best friends are ministers and professors, 2) it does not find democratic discussion necessarily inept and dreamy, 3) it agrees that results count...
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...
Warm Hearts. For two days, in a do-gooder atmosphere of maiden ladies, ministers, matrons, high-school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed and listened to worthy speeches by Representative Will Rogers Jr., ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Federal Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn...