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Show IDEA ADVANCED ON WAYS TO AVERT WAR Clarence K. Streit is the author of "Union Now", an epochal book that appeared a few years ago. It proposed that the democracies of the world follow the example of the 13 American colonies and form a federal union both for their protection against aggression aggres-sion and for the prosperity of their people. There are many ho believe such a union if it had been in existence, ex-istence, would have deterred Nazi Germany and Japan from premeditated premed-itated aggression. While it was not in being in time to prevent the present war there is no reason reas-on why it should not be formed to prevent future warfare. The plan for a federal union does not rule out the purposes of the conferenc at San Francisco nor the world organization that, it is hoped, will bind the United Nations together. The union idea involves only the democratic nations na-tions of the earth, recognizing that non-democratic nations would not fit into such an arrangement. The union, when formed, would not be exclusive but would always be open to nations which attained real democracy. Mr. Streit is not only a capable reporter but an intelligent and patriotic American. He would like to see the world copy the American Ameri-can ideal of government in order that it might do for other peoples what it has accomplished within the borders of the 48 states and, in addition, present the free peoples peo-ples of the earth with assurance against aggression. |