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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...
...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...
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...