Word: streit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presented by the newly-formed Harvard chapter of the movement for Federal Union of the World Democracies, Clarence Streit, who initiated the idea with his two-year-old book, "Union Now," will speak in Emerson D tomorrow at 8 o'clock. Streit formed his theory for international peace and stability from his ten-year experience as the New York Times correspondent at the League of Nations in Geneva...
...Harvard "Union Now" Committee met in Eliot House Common Room last night, but Hitler and Mussolini met in the Alps five months ago. The Committee hopes that it can stir up enthusiasm for Streit's inter-democracy union by broad-casting the ideals of the plan,--the end of war and depression and the widening of individual liberties. Apparently, however, the members of the Committee have been spending their time reading "Union Now" pamphlets and have neglected current headlines. They cannot hope to sell Streit's plan by stressing its sure peace angle when the war is getting bloodier every...
...outline of a possible post-war reconstruction, the Streit plan is useful. The League of Nations' failure has often, and probably rightly, been blamed on American non-participation. This war--and this peace--the nation may think differently. Even the limited intervention to which we are already committed has provoked much critical thinking about the type of world order which permits war twice in a quarter-century...
...Clarence Streit's now-famous book gives the movement its platform, which asks immediate union with Great Britain as a preliminary to a subsequent World Federal Union of Democracies. As a means to this end, the group advocates sending all aid which Britain needs to win the war, and as such, it stands with the Student Defense League, American Defense, Harvard Group, and similar organizations...
...least of all the average Briton, questions that a British victory in World War II would mean a very "new order" in the British Empire and quite possibly in the world. Herbert George Wells & Co., Clarence ("Union Now") Streit, Winston Churchill, Lord Halifax and the Anglican Church have all had their say about Britain's war and peace aims. Last week in London, when Britain's most apparent war aim was to keep from getting licked, another group spoke...