UNITED STATES OF WORLD
A vision of a world in which various nation now sovereign would be subordinated to a central government just as the Canadian provirecs are subordinated to Ottawa was described by Mr Lionel Curtis, the English political philosopher, in an address before the Toronto Canadian Club Mr Curtin said such a world commonwealth was an inevitable development and the only course open to a world that would abolish war. “I haven a doubt in my mind that 1000 years hence such a world government will have been long established,” he said. He called the League of Nations a futile attempt to set up such a state and attributed its failure to the fact that it was based on a principle which the United States had early found erroneous and discarded. This principle, he said, embodied the view that sovereign states could be bound together under a central authority by a compact, and without surrendering any of their rights and powers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 9
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