Word: streits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the United Nations or using any UNESCO material in the schools. They succeeded in eliminating the annual U.N. essay contest, flooded the town with anti-U.N. literature, e.g., "United Nations Seizes, Rules American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept out Pasadena's former Superintendent Willard Goslin. "A very controversial figure," said one school-board member, adding, "I don't know...
Estes Kefauver's travels brought no great contributions to U.S. foreign policy. He remained, as for years before, an enthusiast of Clarence Streit's dreamy Atlantic Union, under which the U.S. would give up significant rights of sovereignty to participate with other free nations in a constitutional federation...
...first book in world government's Bible is Union Now, by Clarence K. Streit. Writing in 1938, Streit proposed a federal union of the democracies of the North Atlantic. He urged a common citizenship, defense force, money, postal and communications system, and a custom-free economy. By 1940, Streit's book had gone through 17 editions, for with World War II fast approaching, people were seeking a slogan, a goal--in short, a blueprint for a new post-war world...
...accident that Federal Union began to disappear just as the United Nations entered the scene. For if Streit's Union New was the Genesis of the world government movement, the United Nations and the Cold War caused the writing of a whole New Testament. Or rather, a number of diverse testaments, each of which answered differently the critical questions facing supporters of world government: Should they work through the U.N.? Skirt it? Or should they perhaps forget about blueprinting an organization which the Cold War may have made impracticable...
...groups believe in centering their efforts on the United Nations. Atlantic Union, for example, was basically an extension of Streit's proposal for a union of the Atlantic democracies, with a boost from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Far removed from the Atlantic Union Committee is another group which concentrated on work outside the U.N. Charter--the "People's World Convention." Meeting in Geneva in 1951, the embryonic convention wanted to bring together a giant world assembly composed of one unofficial delegate elected by every 1,000,000 inhabitants. The state of Tennessee actually sent two delegates, but attendance...