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Early Leaders

Clarence K. Streit

William Clayton

Robert Strausz-Hupé

Norman Angell

Lionel Curtis

Theodore Achilles

Christian A. Herter

Clarence K. Streit

Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic-Clarence K. Streit

Freedom's Frontier - Clarence K. Streit

What you gain by Atlantic Union, Freedom&Union, March 1961

Papers of Clarence Kirshman Streit (1896-1986), author, editor, and journalist,composed in Part I  were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Jeanne Defrance Streit, in 1987-88.  Part II of the papers were given by Jeanne Streit in several gifts from 1992 to 1994 and by Ira Straus, director of the Association to Unite the Democracies, in 1991.

Streit, Clarence K. (1958). De Gaulle Urged Federal Union on Churchill in 1940. Freedom&Union. Vol. 13, No. 7-8. July-August, 1958. pp. 14-16.

Clarence K. Streit featured on Time magazine cover page March 27, 1950

“I have become increasingly convinced of the wisdom of Webster’s “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable”. I attach equal importance to freedom and to union. For freedom without union is anarchy and union without freedom is tyranny. When I use the terms, freedom and union, apart from each other, I still imply in freedom, union and in union, freedom".    ---  Clarence K. Streit

Ronald Reagan on Clarence K. Streit

Theodore C. Achilles on Clarence Streit

Clarence Streit in the words of a friend, by Victor Reinemer, Federator Supplement, June 1986

How UNION NOW Inspired the Campaign to Bring Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, by George H. Lehleitner, Federator Supplement, June 1986

Historian David C. Hendrickson about Clarence K. Streit:

 “Was right in insisting in this best-selling work (…) that the challenge for American foreign policy was to lead in the construction of a federative system linking the Western democracies, that the division among the democracies had been a catastrophic blunder, and that Americans needed to see their contemporary purpose in the world in relation to the vital precedents and lessons of America’s own experience in federal union.

(…) he stated the problem correctly: How to ensure the effective cooperation of the democracies without a common government? How, in the face of the rancors and divisive forces inherent in confederacies, to share the burden equitably? What institutions and vows are necessary to give effect to common purposes without surrendering the autonomy and individually promised by the federal bargain?”

See Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic. Clarence K. Streit. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938, 315 pp. Reviewed by David C. Hendrickson, in Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 1997

Union Now and the Birth of ATA

• Niklaas Hoekstra, Editorial from Atlantic Perspective, 2002

• Remco van Diepen, The Netherlands Atlantic Association: The First Forty Years from Atlantic Perspective, 2002

William Clayton

William Clayton June 1966

Clayton leads for Atlantic Union, Freedom & Union, June 1959

Monnet Lauds Clayton's view, Freedom & Union, June 1959

Clayton's Testament, Excerpts including GATT, The Marshall Plan and OECD

Declaration of Atlantic Unity, 1954

Will Clayton 1880-1966 Atlantic Union Pioneer, by Clarence Streit, Freedom & Union March 1966

Robert Strausz-Hupé

Vision on Atlantic Federation, Freedom & Union, May 1961

Norman Angell

Angell Sums Up at 85—Urges Union of West, Freedom & Union, December 1958

Lionel Curtis

Lionel Curtis-Prophet of Federal Union, by Clarence Streit

Theodore Achilles

Mr. Spaak, Theodore Achilles, and Paul Martin.

In Memoriam, Theodore Achilles

Ambassador Achilles Answers Senators, Freedom and Union, May 1966

Christian A. Herter

"Atlantic Unification Will have to be Based on Some Form of Federal Principles" by Christian Herter, Freedom & Union, June 1966