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Federal Union is an organization formed (in July 1939) for one purpose: to push Clarence Streit's plan for a union of 15 democracies, as laid out in his book, Union Now. Last week Federal Union had 60 U. S. chapters, 60 more being organized, was cooperating with similar organizations abroad. The British organization had 250 chapters, 10,000 members. U. S. Federal Unionists were winding up a $250,000 fund-raising drive, had 3,000 college-student and faculty members, were in the midst of a campaign to form Federal Union groups in labor unions. Outside such organized...
...Clarence Streit. Born in Missouri 45 years ago, one of the first U. S. soldiers to reach France after the U. S. declaration of war in 1917, he was attached to the U. S. Peace Delegation in Paris in 1918-19 (where one of his jobs was to lock up secret documents that diplomats carelessly left lying around). Demobilized, Clarence Streit remained in France, studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford, worked as a newspaperman, married a French girl, fathered a son and two daughters, covered the Riff war, wound up as the New York Times correspondent in Geneva...
...Clarence Streit had read much about the U. S. Constitutional Convention, had pondered on the miraculous transformation of the U. S. from the squabbling days of the Articles of Confederation to the peace and growth that came after the Constitution was adopted. How had it come about? Working forward from the Constitutional Convention, and backward from the failure of the League of Nations, Clarence Streit found the demon: national sovereignty. So long as nations dealt with each other as government-to-government, he decided, no league of sovereign states, no system of pacts or alliances between sovereign states, would work...
...Clarence Streit's first book was rejected by publishers, rewritten four times. He was printing a private edition of 300 copies when commercial publishers grabbed it. Total worldwide sale now: 50,000 copies. Last week he brought out a new book, Union Now With Britain (Harper; $1.75), proposing an immediate course of action...
...program. Under the direction of members of the Faculty, groups of from eight to twelve gather once a week to investigate the major problems, that face them. One of the most thorough probing conducted was into the workings of the Ghandi passive resistance method; another, a discussion of Clarence Streit's "Union...