Book contents
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914–1939
- 2 The Making and Selling of Union Now, 1939–1941
- 3 The Wartime Pursuit of Federal Union, 1940–1945
- 4 Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War
- 5 Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and Postwar Atlanticism
- Conclusion
- List of Archives
- Index
3 - The Wartime Pursuit of Federal Union, 1940–1945
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914–1939
- 2 The Making and Selling of Union Now, 1939–1941
- 3 The Wartime Pursuit of Federal Union, 1940–1945
- 4 Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War
- 5 Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and Postwar Atlanticism
- Conclusion
- List of Archives
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 examines Streit’s wartime activities on behalf of Federal Union, which included efforts to build a national movement with local chapters. The difficulties encountered offer another perspective on grassroots political mobilization, one that calls into question arguments that surge local activism at the time. The chapter also considers Streit’s involvement with the Commission to Study the Organization of the Peace (CSOP), a semi-official grouping that played a key role in designing and championing the UNO as a pillar of postwar US internationalism. Streit’s unwillingness to collaborate meaningfully with the CSOP left him with inadequate means either to promote his own project or to counter the appropriation of federalism for other ends.
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