Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1942, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942. ADVERTISEMENT, tIN UNION NOW LIES POWER TO WIN THE WAR AND THE PEACE THAT the President of the United States submit to Congress a pro- gram for forming a powerful Union of free peopla to win the war, the peace, the future; That this program unite our people, on the broad lines of our Con- stitution, with the people of Canada, the United Kingdom, Eire, Australia, New Zealand and the Union of South Affica, together with such other THE UNITED STATES ITSELF BEGAN AS A WAR MEASURE We welcome President Roosevelt’s conferences with Prime Minister Churchill, and the “Declaration of United Nations.” We must prosecute the war unremittingly. Otrganizing effec- tively the power of the free peoples is essential to that task. We value highly conferences and temporary measures to provide more unified action immediately. But in meeting this need let us, in the present formative period, take care to open—not close —the way to immediate Union of the democracies within the broader anti-Axis coalition. Conferences, agreements between heads of governments, alliances, supreme interallied councils—valuable as they may be, these are not Union, but substitutes that have already failed democracy. The British and French relied on them. They had a unified command. They agreed to make no separate peace. But they based their unity on two sovereign governments, acting in alliance, not on a united sovereign people acting in union through a common government. And their alliance collapsed. Alliance Failed the British and French Prime Minister Churchill sought salvation then in the Amer- ican way of Union. He implored France to join Britain in this “Declaration of Union:” * . . . France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations but one Franco-British Union. The constitution of the Union will provide for joint organs of defense, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France will enjoy immediate citizenship of Great Britain; every British subject will become a citizen of France . . . During the war there shall be a single war Cabinet, and all the forces of Britain and France, whether on land, sea or in the air, will be placed under its directions . . .” Now the responsibility is ours, either to create or defer too long that “common community or state” whose importance Mr. Churchill stressed in the Senate, Dec. 26th. Shall we begin with the British back where they began with the French? Or where they left off—with an offer of Union now, the old, war- tested U. S. way? Organizing the democracies effectively in a Union need take no longer than organizing them in an ineffective alliance or Supreme War Council, and will safeguard their national rights far more securely and equally. There already exist carefully 30,000,000 Thirty million American adults, according to the December Fortune Survey, already believe the United States “after the war” should “join a union of democracies in all parts of the world to keep order.” If you are among those who agree we need Union then to keep a potential aggressor from breaking loose, surely you must agree we need that Union now to meet the powerful combina- tion of aggressors already on the march. To refuse to recognize this so as to avoid controversy will hot save our sons, any more than failure to recognize that a germ caused diptheria saved life in the past, FEDERAL UNION, CLARENCE K. STREIT A. J. G. PRIEST Chairman P. F. BRUNDAGE Secretary President Treasurer SAN FRANGISOO, Russ Bldg. A PETITION free peoples, both in the Old World and the New, as may be found ready and able to unite on this federal basis; That this program be/ only the first step in the gradual, peaceful exten- AS CITIZENS TO OUR FELLOW CITIZENS: We recommend this propesal to your serious consideration Robert Woods Bliss Harold L. Ickes Grenville Clark Owen J. Roberts Gardner Cowles, Jr. Daniel Calhoun Reper Russell W. Davenport Wm. Jay Schieffelin John Foster Dulles studied concrete plans for just the kind of emergency Union that we need. These plans provide for representation respon- sible to the people and in proportion to self-governing popula- tion. They work out the details and assure the American people a majority in the Union Congress at the start. The Soviet States Have a Commion Government Granted, immediate extension of our democratic Federal principles to all our war associates is impracticable. But com- monsense says to unite at once with those practiced in democ- racy while co-operating with the others in the best way we can, until they desire and can apply our principles. We gain from t':e fact that all the Soviet Republics are al- ready united in one government, as are also all the Chinese-speak- ing people, once so divided. Surely we and they must agree that Union now of the democracies wherever possible is equally to the general advantage. Victory dépends in no small part on sea and air factors, now divided between Britain and us, whose nature requires a common government even more than do the land factors in Russia and China, vast and important. as they are. We the people of the United States have once more reached a time to try men’s souls. Let us‘not mistake this moment nor sion of oug principles of federal union to all peoples willing and able to adhere to them, so that from this nucleus may grow eventually a uni- versal world government of, by and for the people. the nature of this test. Lincoln measured it for us when he said, “'We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.” We recognize already that we must unite the power of all our 48 States. We recognize that the British must unite the power of all their Commonwealth of Nations. We have not recognized—and we must at once—that we need above all to unite the whole arch of democracy. An arch without a keystone can be no arch of triumph. Union Is the U. S. Way The people of our original Thirteen States once faced the problem the democracies face now. They had never before united for any purpose. But when their common freedom was at stake they did not try to save it with thirteen independent armies, or even with a “supreme interallied council.” Instead, with revolutionary vision and vigor, they invented a new and stronger keystone: They set up at once a common government. They gave it the power to make war and peace for all. They let it name one common commander-in-chief. And they issued through it a resounding Declaration of the universal and eternal common principles of human freedom on which they proposed to build a New World. Thus, in the midst of war, they created the United States itself as a war measure. They then developed this emergency war policy into a permanent way to keep the peace among their States by adopt- ing a more perfect Union in our Federal Constitution. Since then every American generation has boldly extended these principles of freedom through Union to more states and more people of all kinds. Canada, Australia, the Union of South Africa have already adopted these principles. Britain showed its faith in them when it offered Union to France. Here, then, in our own American principles of Federal Union lies the way to win this war, the peace and the future. We are not so feeble that we cannot do what our fathers have already done. Let us then turn this great danger into a great opportunity. Let us begin now a World United States. AMERICANS FAVOR UNION Remember now the moral slump that always follows war, the return of petty politics. Consider now that if we merely promise Union affer the war, the Axis will drive their peoples on by reminding them of what a Senate minority{did to the promised League . . . after World War I. But once the oppressed peoples see that this Union is no dream but a living, growing, winning World United States, with a place in its “Congress they may earn by regaining their own freedom— JOHN HOWARD FORD what a means we then shall have to wreck the Axis from within! How many, many lives we shall save by this great expedi- tionary idea—once we give it life! It will be fighting for our INC E. W. BALDUF Director PATRICK WELCH Acting-Director PHILADELPHIA, ArchHects Bidg. © WASHINGTON, D. G., 726 Jacksen Place, RE. 2425 o GNIGAQO, 135 La Salle Street ST. LOUIS, Arcade Bldg. © LOS ANGELES, 1717 Nerth Vine $t., Hellywood NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 10 East 40th Street, New York Gity sons day and night far behind the enemy lines. No dictator can be certain it will not be fighting for us in his staff itself. The surest way to shorten and to win this war is also the surest way to guarantee to ourselves, and our friends and foes, that this war will end in a Union of the Free. The surest way to do all this is for us to start that Union now. “We implore you [as the English workmen implored Lincoln to free the slaves] not to faint in your providentiel mission. While your enthusiasm is aflame, and the tide of events runs high, let the work be finished effectually. Leave n0 root of bitterness to spring up and work fresh misery to your children.” g INVITING YOU TO HELP CREATE NOW A LIVING GROWING WORLD UNITED STATES‘ FEDERAL UNION, INC. (4 non-profit membership assciation) 10 EAST 40TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. 0 Please put me, an American citizen, on record as favoring your petition for Union— NOW, as explained in your advertisement in The Evening Star, Washington, D. C., January 5, 1942, Check here for an enroliment card ——, literature ——, reprints of this adv. — * % * Wa need funds to carry on this campaign quickly. If everyone who believes in @ Werld United States will give now what he can to help create it, wa shall have it soon. 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