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Transform the UN into a World Federation? Transform NATO into an Atlantic Union? |
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Over 100 pages documenting the history of the Atlantic Union and World Federalist movements in the United States Congress and beyond from 1949 to 1975 using Congressional Record and Freedom & Union articles. View Now |
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Stronger Defense? |
Greater Prosperity? |
Secure Liberty? |
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General and Complete Disarmament? |
International Socialism? |
Usher in Tyranny? |
H.J.R. 606, The Atlantic Convention Resolution, 1975
Introduced by Rep. Paul Findley
Whereas a more perfect union of the Atlantic Community consistent with the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations gives promise of strengthening common defense, assuring more adequate energy resources, providing a stable currency to improve commerce of all kinds, and enhancing the economic prosperity, general welfare, and liberty of the people of the member nations : Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That-
(1) The Congress hereby establishes a delegation, composed of eighteen eminent citizens, and authorizes it to organize and participate in a convention made up of similar delegations from such North Atlantic Treaty parliamentary democracies as desire to join in the enterprise, and other parliamentary democracies the convention may invite, to explore the possibility of agreement on -
(a) a declaration that it is the goal of their peoples to transform their present relationship into a more effective union based on federal or other democratic principles . . .
View the 1976 House Committee on Foreign Affairs' Report on Atlantic Union
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1910 - 1948 |
World Government Hearings |
1949 - 1950 |
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Download Congressional Record Note: Large Files "International Federation for the Maintenance of Peace," House, May, 1910. PDF, 3.53 MB "Structure of the United Nations and the Relations of the United States to the United Nations," House, May, 1948. PDF, 42.85 MB |
Richard M. Nixon "It is fitting that the United States, the world's first truly federal government, should be a main force behind the effort to find a basis from a broad federation of free Atlantic nations. * * * It would be foolish for us to ignore the fact that science and history are even now fatefully combining to accomplish the same goal. * * The Atlantic Union Resolution is a forward-looking proposal which acknowledges the depth and breadth of incredible change which is going on in the world around us. I urge its adoption." Sept. 1, 1966 |
Download Congressional Record Note: Large Files "To Seek Development of the United Nations into a World Federation," House, October, 1949, PDF, 17.91 MB "Revision of the United Nations Charter," Senate, February, 1950, 34.77 MB
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1950 - 1966 |
Atlantic Union Hearings |
1968 - 1976 |
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"Atlantic Union," Hearing, House, January, 1950 "Relating to the Calling of an Atlantic Exploratory Convention," Hearing, Senate, July, 1955 "Relating to the Calling of an Atlantic Exploratory Convention. Part II, Hearing, July, 1956 "Atlantic Convention," Hearing, House, May, 1960 "Atlantic Union Resolution," Hearing, Senate, March, 1966 "Atlantic Union," Hearing, House, August / September, 1966 |
Basic Chronology of Events Recommended |
"Atlantic Union Delegation," Report, House, July
1968 "Atlantic Union Delegation," Hearing, House, July, 1971 "Creating an Atlantic Union Delegation," Report, Senate, October, 1972 "Creating an Atlantic Union Delegation," Hearing, House, March, 1973 "Atlantic Convention Resolution," Hearing, House, 1975 "Atlantic Convention," Report, House, 1976 |
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Nelson A. Rockefeller "Our generation is called on for a pioneering act of political creativity and economic construction--on the intercontinental scale...The practical first step would be to form a federal political structure for the North Atlantic area.* * *The time has come for us and our Atlantic allies to take the leadership by appointing a preparatory convention of delegates to work out answers. . . .November 20, 1964. "I am wholeheartedly in favor of the purposes set forth in these resolutions . . . a practical first step toward forging a Union of the Free . . . Enactment would be a historical milestone in the annals of human freedom and world peace." March 2, 1966 |
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UN Reform |
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| "Proposals for United Nations Reform," Report, House, March, 1978 |
Luther Evans, World Federalist ". . . we must look at the problem of United Nations Charter review not as the problem of calling another world-wide convention to give us a new document, but rather as a problem of developing the kind of world public opinion which will support an improvement here and there . . . as we strengthen the structure in one respect after another until we gradually over the decades build a strong enough conviction in the people of the world that we must continue to strengthen the structure and even perhaps takes some large steps in the establishment of a more civilized family of nations." 1975 |
"United Nations Reform," Hearing, House, October, 1979 |
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John F. Kennedy "For the Atlantic partnership of which I speak would not look inward only, preoccupied with its own welfare and advancement. It must look outward to cooperate with all nations in meeting their common concern. It would serve as a nucleus for the eventual union of all free men--those who are now free and those who are vowing that some day they will be free." Declaration of Interdependence, July 4, 1962
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