Evening star., 1946-06-09
World Government
Proposed by ave in
Drive for Members
By the Associoted Press

Bidding for 100000 new mem
bers, sponsors of the fedgling Amer
ican Veterans Committee of World
War II yesterday wrote into their
proposed platform plan for world
government.
The three-pronged program, di-
vided into international, national
and veterans affairs, will be offered
at the first national convention of
AVG opening in Des Moines, Iowa,
next Thursday.
There Charles G. Bolte, the 26-
year-old national chairman, will tell
l 500 delegates the time has come
for AVG to make its bid for a place,
numerically, beside other major vet
erans' organizations that count
members in seven figures Immedl-
ately after the convention ends June
Is, the membership drive is expected
to open.
Exclusive World War II Group.
AVG is exclusively for World War
II veterans, whose average age now
is 26 years, compared with an aver
age of SO for veterans of World
War l.
Among its members are Franklin
D. Roosevelt, jr.; Philip Willkie,
son of the late Wendell Willkie;
Col. Evans F. Carlson OF the famed
Carlson Raiders; Bill Mauldin, the
cartoonist, and Mayor William
| ODWyer of New York.
Organized in 1943 by three GIsI
and two officers, it only had 10000
members three months ago, but now
has tripled to 10000, its officers say.
Has Dissented Often.
1t never has hesitated to voice an
aggressive opinion that has been
called cleft of center" with no OBJ
lection from AVG leaders.
| 1t has disagreed often with older
veterans organizations, but it took
the same road they did on the
draft. 1t urged Congress to con-
tinue selective service, with no in
duction holiday.
The proposed platform proposes
"the eventual transformation of the
United Nations Organization into
world government"
by world government we mean
the abolition of national sovereignty
and of nation-states in a system
whereby the world government will
derive its allegiance directly from
each individual as the sovereign
unit, regardless Of race, color, creed
or economic status" the plan says.
Urges Cooperation With Russia.
g.. we affirm our conviction that
the peace of the world depends on
the close and sympathetic co-opera-
ton of the United States and Soviet
Russia. We believe Russia is en-
titled to a proportionate share of
world resources and of security pro-
visions, but we maintain there must
be international subordination to
the dictates of the UN and therefore
we condemn any unilateral act of
aggression or solution of disputes
involving world politics."
The proposed platform also rec
ommends international control OF
the atomic bomb, and, meanwhile,
the cessation OF manufacture of
bombs by the United States.
In the national field, it recon-
mends a IS cent hourly minimum
wage: democracy in unions" and
the settlement of jurisdictional dis
putes without strikes or boycott;
and the creation of authorities to
develop major river valleys.
Regarding policies for veteran af-
fairs. the proposed platform reiter-
ates the AVG slogan: "Citizens first;
veterans second" 1t says "the basic
problems facing us are not different
from those facing citizens of the
Nation, as whole. We believe, for
example, in full employment, not
merely jobs for veterans"