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Sixteen months ago, Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) proposed a union of democracies against the Nazi tide. Since then, disunited democracies have collapsed like sand castles. This week, in a full-page advertisement ("paid for by a group of American citizens") appearing in the New York Times, Streit proposed "UNION NOW . . . [of] the U. S. A. and the Six British Democracies . . . before it is too late...
Among the few courses left to U. S. foreign policy, said Streit, were: to give the British up as lost, thus abandon the U. S.'s first line of defense; to give all aid short of war, or go to war (neither of which courses held any insurance that the British fleet would not be surrendered, turned against the U. S.). The U. S., said Streit, must offer Britain the hope that lay in Union Now with the U. S. Union gave the 13 colonies the courage to fight tyranny in 1776. "We face now not George...
Still plugging for an international federation of democratic countries, sparse-haired Clarence Streit, author of Union Now, drafted a "declaration of independence" designed to unite the seven English-speaking States (the U. S., Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa, Ireland) under an "intercontinental congress" which, sitting in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, would be empowered to command their military forces, declare war & peace...
Wrangling during its Harrisburg convention on the objectives of national defense, and getting nowhere, 1,100 Pennsylvania clubwomen heard Clarence Streit urge the program of Federal Union. Argued Clarence Streit: The fate of democracy depends on the defeat of Hitler. He cannot probably be defeated without U. S. aid. Military preparedness is not enough; the only force the U. S. can quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored...
...Author Streit back for an ovation, the clubwomen voted, 1,092-10-8, to urge the program of a world-wide federal union as the basic objective of U. S. efforts...