nsored the North Atlantic Treaty to name delegates,
representing their principal political parties, to meet with
delegates of the United States in a federal convention to explore
how far their peoples, and the peoples of such other democracies as
the convention may invite to send delegates, can apply among them,
within the framework of the United Nations, the principles of free
federal union."

An Atlantic Union Committee Resolution, providing for the calling of an
international convention to "explore" steps toward a limited world
government, was actually introduced in the Congress in 1949--with the
support of a frightful number of "liberals" then in the Congress.

The Resolution did not come to a vote in the 81st Congress (1949-1950).
Estes Kefauver (Democrat, Tennessee) gravitated to the leadership in
pushing for the Resolution in subsequent Congresses; and he had the
support of the top leadership of both parties, Republican and Democrat,
north and south--including people like Richard Nixon, William Fulbright,
Lister Hill, Hubert Humphrey, Mike Mansfield, Kenneth Keating, Jacob
Javits, Christian Herter, and so on.

From 1949 to 1959, the Atlantic Union Resolution was introduced in each
Congress--except the one Republican-controlled Congress (83rd--1953).

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In 1959, Atlantic Union advocates, having got nowhere in ten years of
trying to push their Resolution through Congress, changed tactics. In
1959, Streit's Atlantic Union Committee published a pamphlet entitled,
_Our One Best Hope--For Us--For The United Nations--For All Mankind_,
recommending an "action" program to "strengthen the UN." This "action"
program asks the U.S. Congress to pass a Resolution calling for an
international convention which would accomplish certain "fundamental
objectives," to wit:

"That only reasonably experienced democracies be asked to
participate; and that the number asked to participate should be
small enough to enhance the chance for early agreement, yet large
enough to create, if united, a preponderance of power on the side
of freedom.

"That the delegates be officially appointed but that they be
uninstructed by their governments so that they shall be free to act
in accordance with their own individual consciences.

"That, whatever the phraseology, it should not be such as to
preclude any proposal which, in t