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Show Page 4 The UTAH INDEPENDENT The Paper That Dares i February 15, 1973 Chase Osborn, Percival Brundage (C.F.R.), Melvin Ryder, A.W. Schmidt (C.F.R.), and Robert Strausz-Hup(C.F.R.). Subsequently, Senator Theodore Green Island) introduced a Resolution calling on Congress to endorse a citizens convention on received the Foreign and it N.A.T.O., Relations Committees unanimous approval. But when Senator Green then attempted to ram it through the Senate by the procedure of unanimous consent, he was blocked by Senator William F. Knowland Senator Knowland properly believed that such an important measure should be debated, and his objection effectively killed the Resolution. The Atlantic Unionists were disappointed by this setback, but were invigorated by the results of the Noby Robert W. Lee vember Congressional elections. Senator Knowland had retired to seek On January 18. 1973. Senator Gale many, since it was difficult to find a another office, and a number of influgeneral advantage from the merger ential introduced SenMcGee opponents of Atlantic Union ate Joint Resolution 21. which would of the Soviet republics accruing to had been defeated. In addition, many anyone but the dictators in charge of friends of the movement had been create: the merger. . . . an Atlantic Union delegaelected, and the groundwork was thus It was abundantly clear by now laid for tion. composed of eighteen emia major escalation of the drive that Streits concept of union did to nent citizens, and authorized to gain Congressional approval for an not envision a mere loose association organize and participate in a Atlantic Union Resolution. of similar made convention nations, but rather one in which a up of By 1959, Streits basic Policy had new government would have power to become delegations from such Sorth Atquite familiar to readers of lantic parliamentary democracies impose a common citizenship on the Freedom And Union. Almost every as desire to join in the enterpeoples of captive nations; to directly issue carried a large part of the Policy. other and tax their citizens; to make and enforce parliamentary prise. Its internationalist flavor was made democracies the convention common laws; to coin and borrow clear in the first paragraph, which to explore the possibility money; to control the armed forces of urged people To think, write and act the federated nations; and, to admit of agreement on: always in terms of all the democratic member-nation- s the that a declaration new goal (a) to the union. world, and not of any one country in of their peoples is to transform Congress was then reluctant to sacit. That year, Senator Hubert Humrifice the sovereignty, independence, their present relationship into a a member of phrey and integrity of the United States, and more effective unity based on the C.F.R., introduced a revised verthe scheme was largely ignored. The federal principles; sion of the rejected Kefauver and movement received an encouraging (b) a timetable for the transiGreen Resolutions. The Humphrey tion by stages to this goal; and boost, however, when the United Resolution received strong States joined the United Nations in (c) a commission to facilitate support, including the endorsement of 1945. And the following year Clarence advancement toward suck stages. Secretary of State Christian Herter A similar measure. House Joint Streit founded the monthly magazine (C.F.R.) on behalf of the Eisenhower Resolution 20S. was introduced in the Freedom And Union which he has Administration. International support edited ever since, and which serves toHouse on the same day by Congressy came from a Atlantic Conman Paul Findley day as an influential vehicle for transParN.A.T.O. the gress sponsored by At first glance, the Atlantic Union porting Atlantic Union propaganda. liamentarians Conference in London In 1949, the United States joined Resolution might appear to be rather during June of 1959. The innocuous, but it actually poses a very the North Atlantic Treaty OrganizaAmerican delegation to that Congress serious threat to our national sover- tion (N.A.T.O.), which was allegedly was solidly stacked with sixteen memeignty and independence laying the intended to serve as a military alliance bers of the Council on Foreign Relaa for federal the of West the union Commugroundwork defending against tions, including an United States with Europe. It is a first nism. Unrecognized by most Ameriyoung intellectual named Henry Kiswas the ambiguous text cans, however, AdvoGovernment! World toward step singer. When the N.A.T.O. Congress cates of the measure came within a of the N.A.T.O. treaty, which could be ended, the various delegations agreed to a declaration which endorsed the proverbial whisker of purring it interpreted as authorizing an internacitizens convention on through Congress last year, and most tional political union. This, of course, proposed observers currently predict that the was the interpretation which Streit N.A.T.O. called for by the Humphrey Resolution will be approved sometime and his colleagues favored. That same Resolution. year, in an apparent attempt to capiThe Humphrey measure was not during the 93rd Congress. The accutalize on the popular reception acracy of their prediction will depend in passed in 1959, but the patient gradcorded N.A.T.O.. Streit formed the. how on ualism and persistence of the Atlantic oppoeffectively large part Atlantic Union Committee. A main Unionists finally paid-of- f nents of Atlantic Union make their in I960, goal of the Committee was to rally when it sailed through both the Senate views known to their Senators and Congressional support for a Resolution Foreign Relations Committee and the Representatives. asking the President to invite delegates House Foreign Affairs Committee, and The Atlantic Union movement befrom other N.A.T.O. countries to a eventually passed both the Senate late the in with publicaThirties, gan where the feasibility of a convention tion of the book Union Mow by a One and House federal union could be considered. World advocate named Clarence Streit. On July 26, 1949, a Resolution to This significant breakthrough became Mr. Streit, who covered the League of 9 on September 7, this effect was introduced by Senator Public Law Nations for many years as a New York U.S. and the Citizens Commis1960, Estes Kefauver Times correspondent, proposed in with sion on N.A.T.O. was created. the support of eighteen other Senators Union Now the formation of a federal Clarence Streit was jubilant! He and five members of the House. The as a union of fifteen democracies measure died on the legislative vine for brought out a revised edition of his first step toward a federal union of the book Union Now in 1961, and his lack of additional support. world. He stressed that national soverPolicy statement in Freedom And On January 15, 1951, Senator Keeignty was at the root of the worlds Union no longer called for a mere fauver again introduced the Atlantic ills, and prescribed as a cure for those federal constitutional convention of Union Resolution, this time with the ills the abolition of national sovereignty in favor of a federal union which could eventually grow into a World Government. Senator Nixon In 1940, Streit joined with Percival backed Atlantic Brundage (a member of the EstablishUnion Resolution. ment Insiders' Council on Foreign Relations!) and Melvin Ryder (editor and publisher of Army Times) to form Senators (ir Federal Union, an organizational out- backing of twenty-seve- n let for Streit's internationalist pro- eluding Californias junior Senatoi Richard Nixon) and nine Represent! gram. During the following year. Mr. tives. Again the Resolution did no Streit authored another book, Union receive so much as a Committee Heai Now With Britain, which called for Plans are being laid to merge the United States into a federal union with theN.A.T.O. "democracies of Europe. The time to stop it is now! Tha Raviaw Of The NEWS e' (D.-Rho- m , may-invite- To Take A Stand i i b the democracies, but rather for acof tion by an Atlantic Convention Citizens from N.A.T.O. Citizens Appointments to the UJS. Commission on N.A.T.O. were, preof dictably, rigged heavily in favor advocates of World Establishment as the dominant Named Government. forCommissioners, for instance, were Christian mer Secretary of State Herter (C.F.R.), David Rockefeller Elmo Roper (C.F.R.), and but most participants apparently felt that public opinion had not yet been sufficiently molded to accept such a move. Streit was, however, pleased to as did the New York Times -tnote hat the idea of Atlantic Union is on the march." And his disappointment over the Conventions results was somewhat alleviated by a series of lectures which Nelson Rockefeller (C.F.R.) delivered at Harvard Universi- (C.F.R.), ty jn February of 1962, urging the William L. Clayton (C.F.R.). At the United States to take the initiative in time, Roper was president (and Clayleading free nations into a federal unton was vice president) of the Atlantic ion. Streit arranged to have RockefelUnion Committee. lers lectures serialized in Freedom CitiDuring January of 1962, the And Union , and they were later pubzens Commission on N.A.T.O. at lished as a book entitled The Future tended an Atlantic Convention of the Of Federalism. Clarence Streit adverNA.T.O countries in Paris. In his tised the book as required reading. address, Christian Herter opening-da- y During 1963, no Atlantic Union referred to the necessary compression Resolutions were introduced in Consovereignty, States of our United gress. Streit worked during the year to and condemned what he termed the collect hundreds of names for the excessive insistence on complete and Advisory Council of the I.M.A.U., and national freedom. At in 1964, during Atlantic Unions the Convention, the the conclusion of twenty-fift- h anniversary, he reaffirmed naAmericans joined with the other commitment to the movements the World tional groups in adopting the Declaragovernment in these goal of One four promade which tion of Paris, words: The Atlantic Union it means the of the governments to to see constituted now will be but a posals N.A.T.O. countries. The first, and nucleus, designed to grow in peace through generations to come, until the Federation of the Free embraces the race of mortal men. whole Sinitor Humphrey On October 18, 1965, Resolutions sponsored Atlantic calling for a constitutional convencitizans convention. tion of N.A.T.O. citizens were introduced in the House and Senate, but went nowhere. discusour to present In 1967. an Atlantic Union Resolumost pertinent a of tion was approved by the House Forsion, called for appointment to eign Affairs Committee, but went no special government commission an Atlantic of the further. organization study Community. Continued on Page 5 Clarence Streit was not entirely satisfied with the results of the Atlantic Convention. He had hoped the Convention would tackle directly the job of working out an Atlantic government, Am I therefore become five-da- ). your enemy because you the truth? To realize how hard it is -- St. tell I Paul - (51-to-4- . 999 fine guaranteed LAVELL BUTT AGENCY 278-66- P.O. 11 SWISS OF AMERICA Salt B.ox 21194 HANSEN-NIEDERHAUSE- Lake Citv, Utah 841 2 i INC. R, (288-to-103- ). 4) 86-71- ing. incorporation of the democracies On February 9, 1955, Senator Ke for as basis a into the British Empiie fauver once more introduced the meas a an eventual World Government and this time it reached a Hearinj goal apparently reflecting his experi- ure, before the Senate Foreign Relation: ence as a Rhodes Scholar, t Committee before running out o a launched In 1942, Clarence Streit steam. major newspaper advertising campaign, In 1958, in an attempt to stoke i urging the President and Congress to fire under his crusade, Clarence Streil take steps to form a powerful union founded the International Movement the the war. of free peoples to win for Atlantic Union (I.M.A.U.). An peace, the future. An interesting argument used in the campaign was that, impressive list of supporters was gatl were ered from several N.A.T.O. countric republics since the Soviet we onie and to serve as the new organization' united in government, they must agree that union now of the Board of Directors. Streit himself b democracies wherever possible is came president of the I.M.A.U., am equally to the general advantage. This other members of the Atlantic Unioi analogy must have seemed ominous to Commitee on the Board included Mr: SILVER BULLION - ON PASSBOOK SAVINGS JFM INTERLAKE TfflSPriy 3S MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS Commercial & Industrial Heating & Plumbing Air Conditioning 16 Kensington Ave. 484-525- 5 Salt Lake City Home Storage Foods Costs Too High??? Try the Best Deseret Supply Beehive Foods R. Bylund 754-367- 2 P.O. Box 415, Santaquin, Utah 84655 Cyrus |