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...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...
...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...
...CLARENCE STREIT...
...book itself represents considerable sound thinking, but it is occasionally marred by pedagogical and moralistic passages. Furthermore, Streit does not prove that the League of Nations failed because it was a confederation, and not because America refused to join it. He does not demonstrate conclusively that the federation will endure after the crisis is over. He does not show that Hilter's defeat can be made more certain by his plan than by our present policy. Despite these obvious short-comings, however, Clarence Streit's proposal is the most complete and workable program for the post-war world that...