WORLD DEMOCRACIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 10

WORLD DEMOCRACIES

FEDERAL UNION URGED PROPOSAL IN AMERICA (United FrPiS Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, July 26 A full-page advertisement proposing that “the United States and the six British democracies should form a Federal Union before it is too late,” has been inserted in the New York Times by an unidentified group of American citizens whose leader is Mr Clarence Streit. Mr Streit’s book advocating a union of European democracies, written before the outbreak of the war, gained him considerable international attention. Mr Streit asks Britain, the Dominions and the United States to make a common declaration of their principles of freedom, to create an inter-Continental Congress to defend them, and to establish the nucleus of a world Federal Union modelled on the United States Constitution. “To give up the British people for lost before the fight begins would encourage the Nazis and demoralise the British,” Mr Streit says. “We would earn the contempt of the one and the bitterness of the other, and would deprive ourselves of the time we need to raise an army, not mentioning the time needed to rebuild the British Fleet.” Mr Streit then says that giving all aid short of war, or even going to war as an ally of Britain, would be insufficient. Only a union would give the British people hope of victory and a better world.