Clark Eichelberger participant of World War I
Career
In World War I, Eichelberger interrupted his studies to serve in France.In 1922, he became a lecturer for the Radcliffe Chautauqua System.In 1928, Eichelberger became director of the Midwest office of the League of Nations Association (LNA). He served as a consultant to the League of Nations Secretariat. By 1934, he was the national director of the League of Nations Association. In 1945, the association's name changed to the American Association of the United Nations (AAUN), and Eichelberger served as its executive director until 1964, when he became vice president of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNAUSA) through 1968.In 1945, Eichelberger served as consultant to the United States delegation to the San Francisco Conference and was a member of the committee that created the first draft of the UN Charter. Alger Hiss served as acting secretary during that meeting.In 1939, he co-founded and directed the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace (CSOP). In 1964, he became its chairman. In 1968, he became executive director and served 1974.
Eichelberger was a prolific writer and used such occasions to advocated for the United Nations as a means of achieving world peace. In 1939, he wrote: The road to peace for the United States and for the rest of the nations is to be found in a highly developed society of nations. Some future generation may live in a world in which national sovereignty counts for much less than it does today. In it there will be new forms of group loyalty and patriotism.
In 1944, in a review on book about the United Nations, he commented: