WORLD DEMOCRACIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23721, 30 July 1940, Page 8

WORLD DEMOCRACIES

FEDERAL UNION URGED AMERICAN WRITER'S PLAN NEW YORK, July 26 A full-page advertisement proposing that "the United States and tho six British democracies should form a Federal Union before it is too lato," has been inserted in the New York Times by an unidentified group of American citizens whoso lender' 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 tho United States to make a common declaration of their principles of freedom, to create an interContinental Congress to defend them, and to establish the nucleus of a world Federal Union modelled on tho United States Constitution.

"To give lip the 33ritish peoplo 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 tiino we need to raise an army, not mentioning the time needed to rebuild the British Fleet."

Mr. Strcit then says that giving all aid short of war, or even going to wains an ally of Britain, would be insufficient. Only a union would give the British people hope of victory and a better world.