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...miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and inexpedient." A tacit London-Washington Axis is already a fact. Many British subjects, and not so many U. S. citizens, hope the Axis may eventually become a Union. Clarence K. ("Union Now") Streit, who once advocated union of all the democracies, now advocates union of the U. S. and the British Empire, about all that are left...
...heads when the two nations which have so much in common may again seek to remove some of the artificial barriers between them. Canada, indeed, may well be some day the bridge that will close the gap between the English-speaking peoples and lead to their reunion. Clarence K. Streit may well take heart in his efforts toward "Union...
...would Streit's Union work? "A provisional Inter-Continental Congress" would be set up "on this side of the Atlantic,'" composed of 27 representatives from the U. S., eleven from the United Kingdom, three from Canada, three from Australia, two each from Ireland, Union of South Africa, and New Zealand. This body alone 'would have the power to declare war or peace. "The British Cabinet . . . could no more surrender the naval or other armed forces than the Government of New York can surrender any of the armed forces of the American Union." The British fleet would...
Would the British accept? Wrote Streit with confidence: "The British consider such a proposition practicable and await only our invitation...
...with silent periods of meditation, conducted meetings with as little fuss as they do their worship. Exception: a speech by well-loved Frank Aydelotte (who last month left the presidency of Quaker Swarthmore College to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.) discussing Clarence Streit's Federal Union. His listeners applauded Dr. Aydelotte so loudly that other Friends, surprised, left round-table discussions upstairs, hurried to see what was the matter...