Evening star., 1941-12-03
World Federation
With Peace Keynote
Forecast by Ford
Alternative Is New
And More Terrible
Conflict, He Says
By DAVID J. WILKIE,
Associated Press Automotive Editor.

DETROIT. Dec. 3.-Henry Ford
said in an interview here today that
out of TIE war in Europe will come
q federation Of the world in which
"all barriers of nationality will be
leveled and the peoples of the world
live in common peace and pros
perity'
1t will be federation in which
politics will be definitely discarded; ;
one in which a universal currency, a
universal economy and a universal
market will prevail, he asserted
Unless such a federation is eStab-
liShed. the 78-year-old induStrialist
added, the present war will be only
a dress rehearsal for another and
more terrible conflict.
L. S. Practical Example.
"The United States is a practical
example of federation. We feder-
ated because it was the only way to
save ourselves from ruin. Europe is
finding she cannot live unfederated
today" Mr.. Ford said
IF the United States puts its in
f1uence behind it, the same type of
agreement can be arrived at in Eu-
rope. No country should be forced
In, but every country soon would
see the advantage to be gained by
voluntarily coming in. They would
need no armies and there would be
no wars because nations would all
be neighbors in the same federation.
This in turn would lead to a uni
versal currency and universal
economy and a developed industry
that would have all the world for its
market"
THE point I make" Mr.. Ford went
on. lis that the time is here to start
the federation. The last prophecy
along this line was made Just 100
years ago by TennySon. His 'Locksley
Hall was a marvellous forecast of
things to come. He forecast the in
vention of the airplane as an in
etrument of peace. Then he saw it
turned into terrible tool of war.
After that he saw the war drums
become silent in the Parliament
Of man, the Federation of the
World Everything has come in
the order he saw it right up to the
present time. All that remains to
come is the Parliament of Man the
Federation of the World I think
the time is here and I think Amer
lea has big part in it"
Time to Demand Something.
Mr.. Ford said that every country
that took part in the last war
asked for something and got it,
except the United States. We asked
for nothing and got nothing. We
are not asking for anything this
time. We lend and lease materials.
men and ships without thought Of
repayment. But I think the time
has come when we have the right
to demand something in return and
the only repayment the United
States can ask or accept is some
thing that insures peace and pro-
prietv to the world"
Citing the United States as
practical example of federation"
Mr.. Ford said:
What We have done the people
OF Europe can do. The people Of
Europe are just as good as you will
find anywhere. They are no more
varlike than we are But they are
divided and kept divided by men
who profit by divisions and wars.
But If Europe were federated, the
people who profit by war will never
again get a foothold; they would
have nothing to work on"
Here is something to think
about" Mr.. Ford continued-"Eu-
rope never has produced a Euro
pean. Frenchmen, Germans, Scan
dinavians. italians, Hollanders, Bel
gians. Russians, Poles-yeS. but no
Europeans, That is the poison Of
division. Yet with these very same
nationalities and races here in the
United States we have produced
Americans If these people can be-
come Americans in America, they
can become Europeans in Europe
That is what federation would do