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CLARENCE K. STREIT...
...Sara Sommer is a handsome, substantial widow who owns a lush farm near Peoria. When she first heard of Clarence Streit's plan for lumping the world's democracies into a "Union Now," she said: "Oh, gee! Is that patriotic?" But once convinced that Goodman Streit was not advocating treason, she pitched in, contributing both money and quiet organizing work...
Last Week Mrs. Sommer made the "Welcome to Peoria" speech and underwrote (at something over $2,500) the third annual convention of Clarence Streit's Federal Union, Inc. Four years ago, the "Union Now" idea had seemed dreamy and outrageously advanced. Last week in Illinois, traditional hotbed of U.S. isolationism, the idea still seemed dreamy, but now it was almost behind the times. Mrs Sommer Lad come a long way in postwar thinking-but so had the rest...
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...