Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-06
Insists Union Now
Might Bring Peace
Reader Urges Establishment
OF World Brotherhood
By Federation
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Recently there have appeared several
articles and advertisements sponsored by
Federal Union, Inc, an international
organization working TO achieve fed
Grafton Of democracies. These publica-
lions have advocated union with Great
Britain and have been denounced by
some as British propaganda to draw us
into their war.
Let me tell why I, as an active sup
porter of that organization, believe in
the present application of the federal
union idea presented by Clarence STREET
over year ago.
Some see already that international
organizat ton is a necessity. Others who
might acknowledge it are blinded by the
war in Europe and refuse to have any
thing to do with a scheme drawing US
closer to Europe at this time. We, as
hackers of this idea, are handicapped
by the war. 1t retards, probably, the
contamination of the plan. But we can
not allow a comparatively temporary
activity like the war to kill an ideal for
the future. Yes, we are, in effect,
handicapped by the existence of the war
in Europe. Yet it could be, in reality,
an advantage. There will never be a
time when the democracies of Europe
will be more willing, even eager, to ac-
cept union under democracy than now,
when they are threatened with union
under dictatorship.
We said last year that union then
would prevent the war. And so 1t would
have, for the Is democracies of the world
would have been one nation, and Hitler's
first move df he had dared to make it
under those circumstances) would have
been met and crushed by the combined
power of those IS. Hitler would have
been attacking not small state. but
great nation, of which that small state
was a part. But there was no union,
and the nations we're left to face in
dividuslly the attack Of Hitler and TO
fall individually before his onslaught.
Today Great Britain stands alone.
fighting the conqueror Of five other dem
ocratic nations. We, the people OF the
United States, find ourselves being
drawn closer into the vortex Of that war.
Like it or not, the possibility exists that
we may enter that war. And here Is
where the realistic believers in federal
union raise their voices. If we go TO
war, we want assurance that out of the
peace will come a better world. Before
the last war there was no coherent plan
in the minds of the people, the war was
simply to crush the Kaiser, and the
battle cry was Save the world for de-
mocracy" But the victorious democ-
racies reverted to the very status quo
which brought on the war-a world sys-
TEN which is no system: disorganiza-
ton which 20 years later plunges the
world into another war.
So this time we must present plan
plan that sees farther than simply con-
ouering Hitler. If we 90 to war. let us
have union with Britain-not an ALI
ance Let us have a foundation upon
which to build a greater union when
and, granted, If, we win the war. Hitler's
defeat would release the other nations
to enter the union. Filters defeat might
even mean such downfall Of the Ns1
1Qedl as 70 Tic PCOPAC w
democracy.
We say today that union now can win
the war. We say that, once victorious,
union nov can bring lasting peace. We
say federal union is great ideal. an
ideal of which to be proud. for which to
struggle and sacrifice: We deny that it is
an impractical dream of Utopia. We
deny this because we believe in the basic
idealism of every individual, whatever
nationality he may be. We believe in
the fundamental tendency of human be-
inss to strive toward good, to toll always
upward to keep ever burning in them
the hope of a glorious ideal.
We believe that the will of human
beings TO make a better world shall be
contaminated in union of the world and
we propose to take a bold step toward
world brotherhood by union-now.
October %. PEGGY FALK.