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ATLANTICA NOW
IN SEARCH OF A CAPITALIST PEACE

by Richard R. Biondi

LINKS TO PRIMARY SOURCES

ORIGINS OF WORLD FEDERATION

Kant, Immanuel - Perpetual Peace

PEACE / ARBITRATION MOVEMENT

Dodge, David - Mediator's Kingdom not of this World

Dodge, David - War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ

American Peace Society - The Advocate of Peace

Ladd, William - Congress and Court of Nations

American Peace Society - History of the American Peace Society and Its Work

Workman's Peace Committee Publication

Carnegie, Andrew - A League of Peace

HAGUE CONVENTIONS

Russian Emperor calls for Peace Conference 1899

Instructions to U.S. delegation attending the Peace Conference at the Hague

Proceedings of the First Hague Conference of 1899

General Report of the United States Commission

Advocate of Peace - Instructions to the U.S. Delegation to the Second Hague Conference

Carnegie Endowment - The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences

 

ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

Gallager, John and Robinson, Ronald -

The Imperialism of Free Trade

Stead, W.T. - The Americanization of the World

FIRST ITERATION OF THE WORLD FEDERALIST MOVEMENT TO PREVENT WORLD WAR ONE

Trueblood, Benjamin - The Federation of the World

New York Peace Society - The Peace Movement: The Federation of the World

World Federation League - The Peace Movement - The American Peace Commission

Roosevelt, Theodore - Nobel Prize Speech

Hearing, U.S. House of Representatives, International Federation for the Maintenance of Peace

FINANCING WORLD WAR ONE AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

The Meeting a Jekyll Island

Revenue Act of 1913 - Underwood Simmons Tariff

PREPARING FOR A LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO PREVENT WORLD WAR TWO

The League to Enforce Peace - Independence Hall Conference

Holt, Hamilton - The League to Enforce Peace

Wilson, Woodrow - 14 Points Speech

NEUTRALITY

U.S. Policy on War Loans to Belligerents

Neutrality Act of 1935

WAR PROFITEERING

Moody, John - The Masters of Capital

Nye Committee - Merchants of Death

Findings - Nye Committee Report

 

POST WORLD WAR ONE

PROTECTIONISM

Report on the Emergency Tariff Act of 1921

State Department - Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922

 

OUTLAW WAR

Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

 

WAR REFERENDUM

Senate - War Referendum Resolution - July 1939

SECOND ITERATION OF THE WORLD FEDERALIST MOVEMENT

 

Committee to Frame a World Constitution

Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution

Culbertson, Ely - The Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution

United World Federalists

Baratta, Preston - The Politics of World Federation - Humber Resolution

Davenport, John. The Approach to World Government Through the Technique of the World Constitutional Convention: American Experience

Atlantic Union

Streit - Union Now - 1939

Mises, Ludwig von - Omnipotent State (Critique)

An inquriy into the history, background and progress of the Atlantic Union Committee, Bill Bodeger (1959) 

CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, REPORTS, AND RECORDS

THE ROOSEVELT YEARS

Representative Jacob Thorkelson on British-Israel World Federation, September 3, 1940

Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia on Influences to Bring the United States into the War, October 3,  1940

Albert Knock’s Review of Union Now Knocks Bottom out of Contemptible Idea, May 26, 1941

Representative Paul Shafer, Cecil Rhodes, Not Streit, Was Author of Union Now, June 6, 1941

Representative Clare Hoffman, The President’s Birthday, January 30, 1942

Representative Jonkman, Federal Union? June 30, 1943

Representative Karl Mundt, Freedom Through Free Government, May 3, 1944

THE TRUMAN YEARS

Mrs. Luce, The Atomic Bomb is Here to Stay, But Are We? September 30, 1945

 

World Federalism / UN Reform

 

House, Structure of the United Nations, 1948

House, To Seek Development of the United Nations into a World Federation, 1949

Senate, Revision of the United Nations Charter, 1950​

Senate, Report, Revision of the United Nations Charter, 1950

Senate, Report, United Nations Charter Study, 1953

 

Atlantic Union

Senate, Atlantic Union, 1950

 

THE EISENHOWER YEARS

 

World Federation / UN Reform

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, DC, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Ohio, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Wisconsin, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, North Carolina, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Kentucky, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Iowa, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Minnesota, 1954

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Georgia, 1955

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Florida, 1955

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, California, 1955

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Colorado, 1955

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, DC, 1955

Senate, Review of the United Nations Charter, Index, 1955

Senate, Report, Review of the United Nations Charter, 1956

Senate, Print, Strengthening Free World Security, 1960

 

Atlantic Union

Senate, Relating to the Calling of an Atlantic Exploratory Convention, 1955

Senate, Relating to the Calling of an Atlantic Exploratory Convention, Part II, 1956

House, Atlantic Convention, 1960

House, Report, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO, 1960

Senate, Report, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO, 1960

Senate, Vote, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO, 1960

House, Vote, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO, 1960

 

THE KENNEDY YEARS

 

World Federation / UN Reform

President Kennedy, World Peace Through General and Complete Disarmament Augmented by World Law, 25 September 196

U.S. State Department - Freedom from War

Atlantic Union

NATO Parliamentarians on Atlantic Convention, 1961

Print, Clayton and Herter, A New Look at Foreign Economic Policy, 1961

Hearing, Foreign Economic Policy, 1961

Report, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO, 1962

Print, Foreign Economic Policy for the 1960s

President Kennedy, Declaration of Atlantic Interdependence Speech, July 4, 1962

Senator Kefauver on Atlantic Convention of 1962

President Kennedy, John F. - Address in Frankfurt, Germany, 1963

 

THE JOHNSON YEARS

 

Atlantic Union

Senate, Atlantic Union Resolutions, 1966

House, Atlantic Union, 1966

House, Report, Atlantic Union Delegations, 1968

 

THE NIXON/FORD YEARS 

 

World Federation / UN Reform

House, Right to Peace Resolution, 1974

House, Report, Question of UN Charter Review, 1975

 

Atlantic Union

House, Atlantic Union Delegation, 1971

Senate, Report, Creating an Atlantic Union Delegation, 1972

House, Creating an Atlantic Union Delegation, 1973

House, Report, Creating an Atlantic Union Delegation, 1973

House, Vote, Atlantic Convention, 1973

Senate, Report, Creating an Atlantic Union Delegation, 1973

House, Atlantic Convention Resolution, 1975

House, Report, Atlantic Convention, 1976

House, Vote, Atlantic Convention, 1976

THE CARTER YEARS

World Federation / UN Reform

Members of Congress for Peace Though Law (MCPL), 1977 (Joe Biden)

Senate, Report, Proposals for United Nations Reform, 1978

Senate, Hearing, United Nations Reform, 1979

Senate, Report, Reform of the United Nations, 1979

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