Clarence Streit Papers, 1913-1984

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Streit, Clarence, 1896-1986
Title
Clarence Streit Papers
Dates
1913-1984 (inclusive)
Quantity
9.5 linear feet
Collection Number
Mss 160 (collection)
Summary
Clarence Streit was a journalist and advocate for world peace through the Federal Union. The Streit Papers include correspondence between Streit and a number of the country's most influential figures in the fight for federal union of democratic nations, including: Theodore C. Achilles, former Director of Western European Affairs, William Clayton, whose efforts resulted in the Marshall Plan of 1947, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts and former Congressmen Paul Findley and Estes Kefauver.
Repository
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana--Missoula.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Clarence K. Streit was born in California, MO, in 1896. At the age of 15 he moved to Missoula, Montana, where he founded the Konah, a high school paper that is now one of the oldest in continuous publication. Streit worked in the summers surveying in Alaska and the Rocky Mountains to finance his education at Montana State University, (now the University of Montana), where he edited the college newspaper, the Kaimin, and served on the debate team.

Streit left Missoula in 1917 and volunteered in the 18 th Railway Engineers for war service. One of the first 50,000 American soldiers to land in Europe, he reached France in August of 1917. In 1918 he joined the Intelligence Service where for a time he served as one of the guards of President Wilson. After his time in the service, Streit returned to Missoula where he won a Rhodes Scholarship which enabled him to study history at Oxford. Once in England, Streit met Jeanne Defrance of Paris, and they married in 1921.

In 1925 he joined the New York Times as a foreign correspondent and in 1929 went to Geneva as a correspondent for the League of Nations, a post he held for nearly ten years. During his time as a journalist, Streit covered such prominent issues as the Sino-Japanese war, the depression and the rise of Nazi dictatorship. His interest in such international issues led Streit to resign his position at the Times in 1939 and publish his first book, Union Now, an appeal for a federal union of the democracies.

After the success of Union Now, which admirers hailed as democracy's answer to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Clarence and Jeanne Streit continued to commit their lives to the cause of union. In 1940, the couple founded Federal Union, Inc., an educational organization committed to universal world government. Chapters opened in towns all over the nation, including the formation of a Missoula chapter in 1940. Streit served as president of Federal Union as well as editor of Freedom and Union, the organization's magazine. Streit was one of the founding members of the Atlantic Union Committee that merged with other organizations in 1962 to form the Atlantic Council. His works on behalf of world peace earned Streit a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Clarence Streit died in 1986.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Streit Papers include correspondence between Streit and a number of the country's most influential figures in the fight for federal union of democratic nations, including: Theodore C. Achilles, former Director of Western European Affairs, William Clayton, whose efforts resulted in the Marshall Plan of 1947, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts and former Congressmen Paul Findley and Estes Kefauver. Other prominent figures include President F. D. Roosevelt, President Nixon, and former Senator Mike Mansfield. The collection includes documentation concerning Streit's personal involvement in organization's such as Federal Union, the Atlantic Union Committee and the International Movement for Atlantic Union. Records from these organizations, as well as his personal speeches and writings, make up the bulk of Streit's collection. Also included is the record of proceedings from the 1951 Conference of Strasbourg, a special meeting between European parliamentarians and US members of Congress, which Federal Union and the Atlantic Union Committee helped organize with the goal of creating a North Atlantic Assembly.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to The University of Montana.

Preferred Citation

[Name of document or photograph number], Clarence Streit Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureeen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is divided into twelve series:

Series I: Personal Documents, 5.0 linear feet, 1913-1983

Series II: Atlantic Union Committee, 0.3 linear feet, 1949-1968

Series III: Federal Union, Inc., 1.5 lienar feet, 1939-1982

Series IV: Association to Unite the Democracies, 1 folder, 1984

Series V: Freedom and Union, 0.5 linear feet, 1946-1971

Series VI: International Movement for Atlantic Union, 0.4 linear feet, 1959-1984

Series VII: NATO Information Service, 1 folder, 1962

Series VIII: Streit Book Promotion, 1 folder, undated

Series IX: Student Federalists, 0.3 lienar feet, 1944-1974

Series X: Union Now, 1 folder, undated

Series XI: Related Topics, 1.5 linear feet, 1939-1980

Series XII: Photographs, 7 items, 1983

Location of Originals

Many of the documents in this collection are copies of those held in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Custodial History

The materials in this collection were housed by several different entities before donation to the K. Ross Toole Archives.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. Clarence Streit, the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division, and the Federal Union, 1989, 1992, and 1994

Processing Note

The actions of the original processors are unknown. In 1999 this collection was reprocessed by applying series designations onto the existing organization and re-describing materials for more comprehensive identification.

Separated Materials

During the 1999 reprocessing seven photographs were physically separated from the collection and are currently stored in the UM photo collection: 1999-3550 through 1999-3556. These photographs remain intellectually integrated with this collection and each item is described in Series XII.

Related Materials

The main portion of Streit's papers, totaling 90 linear feet, is held by the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I:  Personal Documents , 1913-1983 Return to Top

5.0 linear feet

This series outlines the life of Clarence Streit and his individual contribution to the cause of federal union. His personal and business correspondence is included, containing many letters between Streit and William Clayton, Owen Roberts, Paul Findley and Estes Kefauver. Streit's writing and speeches make up the bulk of the series, including high school news articles, major features for the New York Times and a variety of college commencement speeches and statements before Congress.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Biographical Information
undated
1/2
General Correspondence
1921-1929
1/3
General Correspondence
1931-1939
1/4
General Correspondence
1940-1942
1/5
General Correspondence
1943-1946
1/6
General Correspondence
1947-1949
1/7
General Correspondence
1950
1/8
General Correspondence
1951-1952
1/9
General Correspondence
1953
1/10
General Correspondence
1954
1/11
General Correspondence
1955
1/12
General Correspondence
1956
1/13
General Correspondence
1957
1/14
General Correspondence
1958
1/15
General Correspondence
1959
1/16
General Correspondence
1960
1/17
General Correspondence
1961
1/18
General Correspondence
1962
2/1
General Correspondence
1963
2/2
General Correspondence
1964
2/3
General Correspondence
1965
2/4
General Correspondence
1966
2/5
General Correspondence
1967
2/6
General Correspondence
1968
2/7
General Correspondence
1969
2/8
General Correspondence
1970-1971
2/9
General Correspondence
1972
2/10
General Correspondence
1973
2/11
General Correspondence
1974-1975
2/12
General Correspondence
1976-1977
2/13
General Correspondence
1978-1979
3/1
General Correspondence
1980-1985
3/2
General Correspondence
undated
3/3
General Correspondence
undated
3/4
Memorandums
1930-1939
3/5
Memorandums
1940-1949
3/6
Memorandums
1950-1959
3/7
Memorandums
1960-1969
3/8
Memorandums
1970-1979
3/9
Memorandums
1980-1983
3/10
Memorandums
undated
3/11
Writings, Partial List of Articles by Streit
undated
3/12
Writings, Athenian Echo
1910
3/13
Writings, Rhymes
February 1913
3/14
Writings, Untitled
1915
3/15
Writings, Some Forecasts
1917-1938
3/16
Writings, How a Missoula Student Turned Battlefields of France as a Guest of US
1919
3/17
Writings, May Day in Paris
Aug. 1919
3/18
Writings, L'Armistice Est Signé
1919
3/19
Writings, Untitled
1999
3/20
Writings, Armistice Reflections
1920
3/21
Writings, Untitled Articles
1921
3/22
Writings, Armenian's Pistol Upset British Plans for Turkey
1921
3/23
Writings, Pope Crowed
1922
3/24
Writings, Belgians Not Grateful for French Backing?
1922
3/25
Writings, Russians Agree to New Parley
1922
3/26
Writings, Untitled
1922
3/27
Writings, Kings Fate Hinges Upon Success of Fascisti in Italy
1922
3/28
Writings, Mussolini Enters Italian Capital as Conquering Hero
1922
3/29
Writings, Benito Mussolini, Roosevelt of Italy
1922
3/30
Writings, Parley Delay Unjustified; Turks Angered
1922
3/31
Writings, Picture of above
3/32
Writings, Giolitti, Active at 80
1922
3/33
Writings, Mussolini's Children Don Black Shirts
1922
3/34
Writings, No Cash, No Coal, Edict of Owners to Ruhr Invaders
1923
3/35
Writings, Behind the Scenes at Lausanne
1923
3/36
Writings, The First Feminist
1923
3/37
Writings, Turk Assembly Votes End of the Galiphate
1924
3/38
Writings, Greek Orators Manage to get Double Action
1924
3/39
Writings, Exquisite Jewelry in Tomb of Utica Salome
1925
4/1
Writings, Sahar's Pompeii Rises Amid the Sand
1925
4/2
Writings, Mid-Week Pictorial
1925
4/3
Writings, Story of Carthage Told in its Pottery
1925
4/4
Writings, Where the Rifle Defies the "75"
1925
4/5
Writings, Death and Play Mingle Weirdly at Fez
1925
4/6
Writings, Calligraphy of the Moslems
1925
4/7
Writings, Desert War as a Legionnaire Sees It
1925
4/8
Writings, Fez Sleeps, Lost in Dreams of Phantom Yesterdays
1925
4/9
Writings, Vienna Laughs at Prophets of Doom
1926
4/10
Writings, How America Appeared to 17 th Century Europe
1927
4/11
Writings, Bratianu, Premier of Rumania, Dies
1927
4/12
Writings, Untitled
1927
4/13
Writings, Guatemala Rains Honors on Lindberg
1927
4/14
Writings, Lindbergh Hopes to San Salvador Safely
1928
4/15
Writings, Lindbergh's Own Story of Flight to Salvador
1928
4/16
Writings, Parting of Ways Faces US in Haiti
1928
4/17
Writings, Post-War Austria is Still a Land of Delights
1929
4/18
Writings, Lotti's Own Story of Atlanta Flight
1929
4/19
Writings, Spain Fetes Fliers; Stowaway a Hero
1929
4/20
Writings, Cornerstone is Laid for League's Home
1929
4/21
Writings, Untitled
1929
4/22
Writings, Seven Months Before the Vienna Rothschild Bank Failed
1929
4/23
Writings, Special Geneva Dispatch or Peacemaking
1929-1934
4/24
Writings, Einstein Evolving yet Another Theory
1930
4/25
Writings, Again the "P.C." and its World Enigma
1930
4/26
Writings, Central Banks Agree to Help
1931
4/27
Writings, World Bank Seek Prevention of Financial Crises
1931
4/28
Writings, The World Bank Feels Europe's Pulse
1931
4/29
Writings, Again Geneva Stages it Annual Drama
1931
4/30
Writings, Various Articles
1931
4/31
Writings, Final Plea to Japan Flashed by League
1932
4/32
Writings, Press Release, untitled
1932
4/33
Writings, Unofficial Proposes
1932
4/34
Writings, Aboard a Whaler
1932
4/35
Writings, Documents and Reality in the League
1932
4/36
Writings, Cooperation of the Press in the Organization of Peace
1932
4/37
Writings, Streit Reporting in the Activities of the League of Nations
1932
4/38
Writings, The Far Eastern War in Geneva
1933
4/39
Writings, The Coldest Audience in all the World
1933
4/40
Writings, American Turns to Short-Cut Diplomacy
1933
4/41
Writings, Political Minds for the New Diplomacy
1933
4/42
Writings, (French Title)
1933
4/43
Writings, Problems of Peace
1933
4/44
Writings, Recovery
1933
4/45
Writings, (French Title)
1933
4/46
Writings, The League's Defenders Make Answer
1934
4/47
Writings, Untitled
1934
4/48
Writings, Of the Airplane, and of Islands, Empires, and World Political Machinery
1934
4/49
Writings, America Revisited and Revealed Anew
1934
4/50
Writings, An Inquiry into the Nation's Thoughts
1934
4/51
Writings, Pre-publication Correspondence on Union Now
1934-1938
4/52
Writings, The Ghosts the Walk Geneva's Halls
1936
4/53
Writings, For the League: Life or Death?
1936
4/54
Writings, For the League: Life or Death? second version
1936
4/55
Writings, A Keynote from Paderewski
1938
4/56
Writings, Dispatch to NY Times
1938
4/57
Writings, Europe's Wolf's Jaw Salient
1938
4/58
Writings, Which Way to World Order
1939
4/59
Writings, Union Now
1939
4/60
Writings, Union Now
1939
4/61
Writings, Union Now
1939
4/62
Writings, The Race Between Dictatorship and Democracy
1939
4/63
Writings, Union Now
1939
4/64
Writings, Business and Government
1939
4/65
Writings, Union Now - A Cornerstone Proposal
1939
4/66
Writings, Where Does Federal Union Stand Now?
1940
4/67
Writings, As One Newspaperman to Another
1940
4/68
Writings, For Mutual Advantage
1940
4/69
Writings, Shall the USA Form a Federal Union ...
1940
4/70
Writings, The Need for Union Now
1940
4/71
Writings, Articles That Have Appeared on Union Now
February 1941
4/72
Writings, The Way to a Man's Heart
1941
4/73
Writings, An American Expeditionary Idea Can Win the War
1941
5/1
Writings, A World Bill of Rights?
1942
5/2
Writings, Will the USSR Seek to Expand?
1942
5/3
Writings, From a Letter the Author Wrote John Howard Ford
1943
5/4
Writings, The Evolution of Union Now
1943
5/5
Writings, Finds United Nations Not Really United
1943
5/6
Writings, Press Release
1943
5/7
Writings, How to Get Democracy in Germany
1943
5/8
Writings, Freedom, Union and Man's Vast Future
Aug. 1943
5/9
Writings, Atlantis Now
1943
5/10
Writings, Atlantis Now
1943
5/11
Writings, Planned Parenthood and Federal Union
1944
5/12
Writings, When America Trusted in the Kremlin for Peace
1944
5/13
Writings, Untitled
1944
5/14
Writings, Why Isn't Molotov Scared
1945
5/15
Writings, To Pool Political Science
1945
5/16
Writings, Suggestions for Articles
1946
5/17
Writings, How the American Constitution Flowed out of the Potomac
1946
5/18
Writings, Press Release
1946
5/19
Writings, How Our Constitution Flowed out of the Potomac
Nov. 1946
5/20
Writings, Press Release
1946
5/21
Writings, For Federal Union
1947
5/22
Writings, Press Release
1947
5/23
Writings, Estimate of the World Situation in 1972
1947
5/24
Writings, The Rise of Man
1947
5/25
Writings, The Atlantic Union Committee for a Federal Convention of the Democracies
1949
5/26
Writings, Press Release
1949
5/27
Writings, The Case Against Pound Devaluation
1949
5/28
Writings, 147 th Anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase
1950
5/29
Writings, The Free Cannot Federate Too Soon
1950
5/30
Writings, Federal Union, Inc. Elects Officers and Board
1951
5/31
Writings, Let's Look into It
1951
5/32
Writings, To Explore Union
1951
5/33
Writings, An Earnest Appeal to the Ford Foundation
1952
5/34
Writings, Gaining Sovereignty, Peace and Tax Reduction by Atlantic Union
May 1952
5/35
Writings, What the Eisenhower Victory Means to Atlantic Union
May 1952
5/36
Writings, Stalin's Phony Peace Faces the New President
Nov. 1952
5/37
Writings. 1944 Plank Proposed to both Party Conventions in Chicago
1952
5/38
Writings, The Eisenhower Peace Program
1953
5/39
Writings, Untitled
1953
5/40
Writings, The Problem I Face in Writing
1953
5/41
Writings, The Problem I Face in Writing a New Book
1953
5/42
Writings, Freedom Against Itself, Chapter 1
1954
5/43
Writings, Freedom Against Itself
1954
5/44
Writings, Proposes March 4 Be Union Day
1955
5/45
Writings, Draft revision of S.C.R. 12
1955
5/46
Writings, Finds US Neglects Origins of Constitution
1955
5/47
Writings, The Finest Thing the Justice Did ...
1955
5/48
Writings, Untitled
1955
5/49
Writings, Forewarned of Suez - And Worse to Come
1956
5/50
Writings, Big Four Talks and 27 Questions for the Free
1955
5/51
Writings, Formation of the Union of the American States
1956
5/52
Writings, Formation of the Union of the American States
1956
5/53
Writings, The Mideast Crisis as I see It
1956
5/54
Writings, Peace Through Freedom Resolution
1956
5/55
Writings, Atlantic Union Could Halve Defense Cost, Ike Said in 1951
1957
5/56
Writings, The Diplomatic Potential of NATO
1957
5/57
Writings, What the NATO Council Failure Means
1957
5/58
Writings, Freedom's Answer to Sputnik
1957
5/59
Writings, Forecasts of Suez and Hungary Which the Administration Ignored with Tragic Results
1958
5/60
Writings, America's Answer to Khrushchev
1958
5/61
Writings, Immortal Goodness
1958
5/62
Writings, A Citizen's Duty: Serving on the Jury
1958
5/63
Writings, Memo on Prime Minister Michel Debré
1959
5/64
Writings, (French Title)
1959
5/65
Writings, Diary
1961
5/66
Writings, Prudent Limits to an American Commitment on European Political Union
1962
5/67
Writings, The Press, Atlantic Union and World Peace
Spring 1962
5/68
Writings, A Weed May be a Christmas Tree
1962
5/69
Writings, Clarence Streit and Atlantica
1963
5/70
Writings, The Coming 25 th Anniversary of Union Now, Federal Union, Inc. and WWII
1963
5/71
Writings, America's Forgotten Revolution of 1789 - And its Meaning for Atlantica Now
1964
5/72
Writings, Memorial Fellows of federal Union of the Free
1965
5/73
Writings, Untitled
1966
5/74
Writings, Pearson, Hertler, Stevenson to get Atlantic Union Pioneer Award in Springfield
1966
5/75
Writings, The Lincoln Law
1966
5/76
Writings, On Second Thought
1966
5/77
Writings, Biographies
1968
6/1
Writings, Chronological List of Sample's of Streit's Writings
1971
6/2
Writings, Atlantic Union Bill Re-enters Congress
1973
6/3
Writings, Atlantic Union Needs Help Now
1975
6/4
Writings, Highlights in Streit Case for Atlantic Convention Bill
1975
6/5
Writings, My Wife and Life-Long Teammate in All Endeavors
1979
6/6
Writings, Why This 1964 Speech and 1968 Sequel are Timely Today
1979
6/7
Writings, Untitled
1980
6/8
Writings, Present Significance of this Pamphlet that Federal Union, Inc. Published in 1944
1981
6/9
Writings, 50-Year Crusade for Atlantic Union
1983
6/10
Writings, Again in Vain?
undated
6/11
Writings, Atlantis Now
undated
6/12
Writings, Atlantic Union - It's Advance and Present Problems
undated
6/13
Writings, Atlantic Union and the Air age
undated
6/14
Writings, Atlantic Union Meets Three Acid Tests
undated
6/15
Writings, Atlantic Union or Atlantic Alliance
undated
6/16
Writings, Autobiography
undated
6/17
Writings, A Call to Federal Unionists
undated
6/18
Writings, A Constructive Answer ...
undated
6/19
Writings, Declaration of Interdependence
undated
6/20
Writings, The Essence of Union Now
undated
6/21
Writings, European or Atlantic Union
undated
6/22
Writings, Facing Another Bomb
undated
6/23
Writings, For Union Now
undated
6/24
Writings, For Transforming NATO into a Federal Union
undated
6/25
Writings, Forty Reasons for Union Now
undated
6/26
Writings, Freedom Against Itself
undated
6/27
Writings, Freedom's Frontier
undated
6/28
Writings, Great Britain's Atlantic Alternative ...
undated
6/29
Writings, Great Orator's Manage to Get Double Action
undated
6/30
Writings, Halfway Measures Won't Keep Hitler Out!
undated
6/31
Writings, Hi! Up There, Montana!
undated
6/32
Writings, How the US and Ottawa Put Military Above Moral Arms
undated
6/33
Writings, Konah
undated
6/34
Writings, New U.N. Charter
undated
6/35
Writings, A Practical Approach to Federal Union
undated
6/36
Writings, Of Freedom and Union Now
undated
6/37
Writings, On the Road for an Idea
undated
6/38
Writings, Operation Dumb-Bell
undated
6/39
Writings, Our Forgotten Peace Policy
undated
6/40
Writings, Postwar Employment Through Union Now
undated
6/41
Writings, Power for Peace Through Federal Union
undated
6/42
Writings, The Proposed Convention to Explore Federal Union
undated
6/43
Writings, A Statement to the Student Federalists
undated
6/44
Writings, The Task to be Done
undated
6/45
Writings, This Book, War, Union and You
undated
6/46
Writings, Twenty Three Students
undated
6/47
Writings, Excerpts from Union Now
undated
6/48
Writings, What Federal Union Members Mean to Me
undated
6/49
Writings, Why Congress Should Commemorate This Year
undated
6/50
Writings, Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill or Magic and Merchants
undated
6/51
Writings, Your Sovereignty - or Your Nation's?
undated
6/52
Writings, Various Writings
undated
6/53
Writings, Pieces
undated
6/54
Summary of a Talk with Senator Kefauver
1950
6/55
Summary of a Talk in Rome During NATO Session
1951
6/56
Summary of a Talk with General Eisenhower
1951
6/57
Summary of 30 Minute Talk with Secretary of State Rusk
1961
7/1
Speeches, 1939 Synopsis
1939
7/2
Speeches, The Race Between Dictatorship and Union
1939
7/3
Speeches, Board of the National Association Of Manufacturers
1939
7/4
Speeches, Broadcast to Europe at War
1939
7/5
Speeches, War is Coming
1939
7/6
Speeches, The Individual and the World State
1940
7/7
Speeches, Inter-Democracy Federal Union
1940
7/8
Speeches, Lindbergh: A Shakespearean Tragedy
1940
7/9
Speeches, America's Answer to Hitler
1941
7/10
Speeches, The American Expeditionary Idea
1941
7/11
Speeches, Colby Commencement Address
1941
7/12
Speeches, The US Way to Win
1943
7/13
Speeches, Fraternity and Peace
1943
7/14
Speeches, Water, Blood or Gasoline
1943
7/15
Speeches, Excerpts from an Address at the Nobel Anniversary Dinner
1943
7/16
Speeches, Is Overpopulation a Threat to Permanent Peace?
1944
7/17
Speeches, Freedom Through Free Government
1944
7/18
Speeches, The Federal Union Way to Peace
1945
7/19
Speeches, Statement to the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
1945
7/20
Speeches, San Francisco and Beyond
1945
7/21
Speeches, Facing Another Bomb
1945
7/22
Speeches, Address at American University
1946
7/23
Speeches, Interview
1946
7/24
Speeches, Can We Have an Effective World Organization Without Russia?
1947
7/25
Speeches, Chaos Worse Than War
1947
7/26
Speeches, Recovery Needs Transatlantic Federal Union
1948
7/27
Speeches, Liberty and Union for Recovery and Peace
1948
7/28
Speeches, Liberty and Union for Recovery and Peace
1948
7/29
Speeches, How Should the UN Progressively Establish International Law?
1948
7/30
Speeches, Will a Union of the Democracies Now Promote Peace?
1949
7/31
Speeches, Statement to the Thomas Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1950
7/32
Speeches, Do We Have an Alternative to Cold War?
1950
7/33
Speeches, Balanced Atlantic Forces?
1950
7/34
Speeches, We Can Win Without World War
1951
7/35
Speeches, Statement on the Mutual Security Bill
1951
7/36
Speeches, Statement on the Mutual Security Bill
1951
7/37
Speeches, Notes for Dr. Paul Douglass
1951
7/38
Speeches, NYC
1952
7/39
Speeches, Atlantic Union ù Freedom's Answer to Malenkov
1953
7/40
Speeches, Excerpt from Speech of Streit
1953
7/41
Speeches, Why the Furor About Atlantic Union?
1955
7/42
Speeches, Statement at the Hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1955
7/43
Speeches, Statement in Favor of Amended Atlantic Convention Resolution
1956
7/44
Speeches, House Foreign Affairs Committee
1960
7/45
Speeches, 1960
1960
7/46
Speeches, America's Forgotten Revolution of 1789
1964
7/47
Speeches, America's Forgotten Revolution û and its Lessons for Atlantica Now
1964
7/48
Speeches, Statement to the Resolutions Committee
1964
7/49
Speeches, Statement to the Platform Committee
1964
7/50
Speeches, Federal Union's Past, Present, and Future
1964
8/1
Speeches, Speech at Philadelphia
1964
8/2
Speeches, Statement to Staff of Federal Union
1965
8/3
Speeches, Statement for Atlantic Union Delegation Resolution
1966
8/4
Speeches, Statement to AP
1966
8/5
Speeches, The "Lincoln Law" Requires Greater Union of the Free Now
1966
8/6
Speeches, The Lincoln Law
1966
8/7
Speeches, Statement for Atlantic Union Delegation Resolution
1966
8/8
Speeches, Serpents, Doves and Atlantic Union
1968
8/9
Speeches, Red Aggression in Czechoslovakia Requires Atlantic Union Now
1968
8/10
Speeches, Presentation of the 1 st Triennial $7500 Estes Kefauver Union of the Free Award
1968
8/11
Speeches, Estes Kefauver: Trail Blazer
1969
8/12
Speeches, (excepts) What Will Future Atlanticans Say of FDR, Churchill, Truman
1970
8/13
Speeches, In Support of House Joint Resolutions 205 and 206
1973
8/14
Speeches, Comment on Dr. Kissinger's Speech to AP Luncheon
1973
8/15
Speeches, Testimony on the Atlantic Convention Resolution
1975
8/16
Speeches, Statement of the US Capitol
1976
8/17
Speeches, Untitled
1977
8/18
Speeches, Who is Surrendering US Sovereignty?
undated
8/19
Speeches, Addresses
undated
undated
8/20
Speeches, Research
1933-1950
8/21
CKS Newsletter 1
1960
8/22
CKS Newsletter 1
1960
8/23
Clippings
1930-1959
8/24
Clippings
1960-1983
8/25
Cover of TIME
1950
8/26
Clippings
undated
8/27
Flyers
1940-1959

Series II:  Atlantic Union Committee , 1949-1968 Return to Top

0.3 linear feet

Documents are included from the Atlantic Union Committee, founded in 1949 with the purpose of petitioning Congress to hold a federal convention. Flyers, resolutions, newsletters and buttons are included in this series.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
9/1
General Correspondence
1952-1955
9/2
Now in NATO Newsletter
1956
9/3
Atlantic Union News Bulletin
1968
9/4
Atlantic Union Delegation Resolution
1969
9/5
Atlantic Union Committee Flyers
undated
9/6
Printed Material
undated
9/7
Legislation
1949-1975
9/8
Special Events
1951-1954
9/9
Pins and Buttons
undated

Series III:  Federal Union, Inc. , 1939-1982 Return to Top

1.5 linear feet

This series contains correspondence from members and officers of Federal Union as well as press releases, newsletters, and financial information about the organization. Minutes, reports and resolutions are also included.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
9/10
General Correspondence
1940-1950
9/11
General Correspondence
1950-1956
9/12
General Correspondence
1957-1962
9/13
General Correspondence
1963-1965
9/14
General Correspondence
1966-1979
9/15
General Correspondence
1980 and undated
9/16
Writing, Union Now's Long Campaign
ca. 1943
9/17
Writing, Press Release
1963
9/18
Writing, Atlantic Union Urged on 175 th US Anniversary
1964
9/19
Writing, Atlantic Union Urged on 175 th US Anniversary
1964
9/20
Writing, Federal Union's 1966 Convocation
1966
9/21
Writing, Press Release
1966
9/22
Writing, We Start Decisive 1968 with Big Breakthrough
1968
9/23
Writing, Press Release
1968
9/24
Writing, Press Release
1968
9/25
Writing, Untitled
May 1969
9/26
Writing, Federal Union Election Notice and Ballot
1970
9/27
Writing, Fact Sheet on Federal Union
1970
9/28
Writing, Fact Sheet on Federal Union
1970
9/29
Writing, Press Release
1970
9/30
Writing, Press Release
1970
9/31
Writing, 26 Administrative and Congressional Leaders
1974
9/32
Writing, Press Release
1976
10/3
Newsletters, Federal Union News
1939
10/4
Newsletters, New York Correspondent
1940
10/5
Newsletters, Federal Union World
1940-1945
10/6
Newsletters, Headquarters Bulletin #1-12
1940-1941
10/7
Newsletters, Headquarters Bulletin #13-19
1941
10/8
Newsletters, Headquarters Bulletin #20-28
1941
10/9
Newsletters, Federal Union Green Paper
1942
10/10
Newsletters, Federal Union News Letter
1961-1962
10/11
Newsletters, Federal Union News Letter
1962-1965
10/12
Newsletters, Federal Union Newsletters
1967-1981
10/13
Newsletters, Clippings
1945-1973
10/14
Newsletters, Printed Material
undated
10/15
Newsletters, Printed Material
undated
10/16
Newsletters, Printed Material
undated
10/17
Newsletters, Special Events
1943-1946
11/1
Audit, Budget Statements
1941
11/2
Audit, Budget Statements
1943-1944
11/3
Audit, Budget Statements
1947
11/4
Audit, Budget Statements
1949
11/5
Audit, Budget Statements
1950
11/6
Audit, Budget Statements
1951
11/7
Audit, Budget Statements
1952
11/8
Audit, Budget Statements
1953
11/9
Audit, Budget Statements
1954
11/10
Audit, Budget Statements
1955
11/11
Audit, Budget Statements
1956
11/12
Audit, Budget Statements
1957
11/13
Audit, Budget Statements
1958
11/14
Audit, Budget Statements
1961
11/15
Audit, Budget Statements
1962
11/16
Audit, Budget Statements
1963
11/17
Audit, Budget Statements
1964
11/18
Audit, Budget Statements
1965
11/19
Audit, Budget Statements
1966
11/20
Audit, Budget Statements
1967
11/21
Audit, Budget Statements
1968
11/22
Audit, Budget Statements
1969
11/23
Audit, Budget Statements
1970
11/24
Audit, Budget Statements
1975
11/25
Audit, Budget Statements
1978
11/26
Audit, Budget Statements
1982
11/27
Contributors
1945-1975
11/28
Employee Pension Trust
1967
11/29
Payroll
1984
11/30
Streit Expense Account
1979-1983
11/31
General Financial Information
1939-1977
11/32
Legal Documents
1939-1960
12/1
By-Laws
1942-68
12/2
Resolution and Declaration
1949
12/3
Organization Summaries
undated
12/4
Agendas
1939-1970
12/5
Ballots
1952-1972
12/6
Officers and Board Members
1940-1977
12/7
Membership and Supporters
1940-1966
12/8
Minutes, Board of Directors
1941-1970
12/9
Reports
1930-1939
12/10
Reports
1940-1949
12/11
Reports
1950-1959
12/12
Reports
1960-1979
12/13
Reports
undated

Series IV:  Association to Unite the Democracies , 1984Return to Top

1 folder

This small series contains minutes from the 1984 meeting of the Association to Unite the Democracies.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
12/14
Minutes
1984

Series V:  Freedom and Union , 1946-1971 Return to Top

0.5 linear feet

Information about Freedom and Union, the magazine that Streit founded and edited, is included in this series. The collection contains a number of articles published in the magazine, as well as information about subscribers and supporters of the publication.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
12/15
General Correspondence
1946-1956
12/16
General Correspondence
1957-1963
12/17
General Correspondence
1967-1968
12/18
General Correspondence
undated
12/19
Writings, Untitled
1956
12/20
Writings, Press Release
1966
12/21
Writings, Danger of Another Monetary Crash
1967
12/22
Writings, Russia Gambling on Mideast "Brink-Blank"
1970
12/23
Writings, Two Soviet Ways to Meet US
1971
12/24
Writings, Untitled
undated
12/25
Flyers
undated
12/26
Membership and Supporters
1962 and undated

Series VI:  International Movement for Atlantic Union , 1959-1984 Return to Top

0.4 linear feet

Streit co-founded this organization and served as its president. This series includes a good deal of correspondence between members and officials of the organizations and a variety of newsletters.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
13/1
General Correspondence
1959-1965
13/2
General Correspondence
1966-1978
13/3
General Correspondence
1984 and undated
13/4
Writings, Two NATO Wisemen
1960
13/5
Writings, Press Release
1960
13/6
Writings, Teller Holds Atlantic Union "Even More Important than Vietnam"
1966
13/7
Writings, Under Secretary of State Eugene Rustow on Atlantica
1966
13/8
Writings, Untitled
1972
13/9
Newsletters, IMAU Bulletin
1960
13/10
Newsletters, IMAU Bulletin
1960
13/11
Newsletters, IMAU Bulletin
1960
13/12
Newsletters, IMAU News
1973
13/13
Newsletters, IMAU News
1975
13/14
Newsletters, Atlantic Convention News Flash
1975
13/15
Newsletters, Atlantic Convention News Flash
Sept. 1975
13/16
Newsletters, Atlantic Convention News Flash
March 1976
13/17
Newsletters, Atlantic Union Bulletin
1973
13/18
Newsletters, Clippings
1962
13/19
Newsletters, Flyers
undated
13/20
Newsletters, Special Events
1967
13/21
Constitutions
1958-1959
13/22
Declarations
1962
13/23
Agendas
1959-1966
13/24
Officers and Board Members
1958, 1969 and undated
13/25
Membership and Supporters
1962-1969 and undated
13/26
Minutes
1958-1965

Series VII:  NATO Information Service , 1962Return to Top

1 folder

This series contains NATO newsletters from 1962.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
13/27
Newsletters
1962

Series VIII:  Streit Book Promotion , undatedReturn to Top

1 folder

Pamphlets and promotional materials are included concerning Streit's two major works, Union Now and Freedom Against Itself.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
13/28
Flyers
undated

Series IX:  Student Federalists , 1944-1974 Return to Top

0.3 linear feet

This series includes correspondence between Streit and Harris Wofford, president of the Student Federalists. The series also includes resolutions from chapters, special events held by the Student Federalists and reports.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
13/29
General Correspondence
1946-1974
13/30
Harris Wofford and the Student Federalists
undated
13/31
Flyers
undated
13/32
Special Events
1944-1952
13/33
Resolutions
undated
13/34
Reports
1944 and undated

Series X:   Union Now Bulletin , undatedReturn to Top

1 folder

This series contains copies of the organization's newsletter, Union Now Bulletin.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
13/35
Union Now Bulletin
undated

Series XI:  Related Topics , 1939-1980Return to Top

1.5 linear feet

This series contains documents on other events and figures in the union movement. Included are various articles on the prospect of union from a range of journalists as well as writings and speeches from figures such as congressman Paul Findley, Owen Roberts and William Clayton. Also included is a copy of House Joint Resolution 606, senatorial comments concerning the resolution and the record of proceedings from the Conference of Strasbourg.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
14/1
General Correspondence
1944-1956
14/2
General Correspondence
1957-1965
14/3
General Correspondence
1966-1979
14/4
General Correspondence
1980 and undated
14/5
Writings, The Danger in the Plan of Clarence Streit, by Rosika Schwimmer
1939
14/6
Writings, The Wars and the Peace, by Ralph Lesen
1940
14/7
Writings, Hobart College Bulletin
June 1941
14/8
Writings, Talk with Ambassador Lituinoff
1942
14/9
Writings, We Need Leadership Now, by Owen Roberts
1948
14/10
Writings, Printed Letters to Streit
1956
14/11
Writings, Eisenhower Letter on Atlantic Exploratory Committee
1956
14/12
Writings, French title
1956
14/13
Writings, Avon Urges Atlantic Federation
1963
14/14
Writings, Senator Carlson Urges Atlantic Federal Union
1965
14/15
Writings, Transcription
1967
14/16
Writings, Draft Statement for Reagan
1968
14/17
Writings, Senatorial Comments
1969
14/18
Writings, How Much Time Do We Have Left?
1970
14/19
Writings, Text for Accepting the Atlantic Pioneer Award, by Robert Finch
1970
14/20
Writings, News from Congressman Paul Findley
1972
14/21
Writings, Senatorial Comments
1972
14/22
Writings, House Joint Resolution 606
1975
14/23
Writings, A Joint Resolution to Call an Atlantic Convention
1979
14/24
Writings, A Look at the Coming Union, Robert Powell
undated
14/25
Writings, Political Community in the North Atlantic Area - Appendix A
undated
14/26
Writings, General
undated
14/27
Writings, General
undated
15/1
Statement of J. Parker Van Zanht
1950
15/2
Statements of Senators on Atlantic Union
March 1950
15/3
Testimony of Honorable Owen J. Roberts on Atlantic Union Resolution
1950
15/4
Testimony of Honorable William Clayton on Atlantic Union Resolution
1950
15/5
Statement of Assistant Secretary of State John D. Hickerson on Senate Resolution 133
1950
15/6
Eagleton Statement to Sub-Committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1950
15/7
Statement by William L. Clayton
1964
15/8
Insert by Paul Findley to the Congressional Record
1979
15/9
Speech, A New Direction in American Foreign Policy, Honorable Alexander M. Hay, Jr.
1981
15/10
Clippings
1940-1979
15/11
Printed Material
undated
15/12
Printed Material
undated
15/13
Special Events
1939-1970
15/14
Reports
1968
16/1
Conference of Strasbourg
1951
16/2
Conference of Strasbourg
1951
16/3
Conference of Strasbourg
1951
16/4
Conference of Strasbourg
1951

Series XII:  Photographs , 1983 Return to Top

7 items

Photos include portraits of Clarence Streit and of Robert Finch, as well as a few snapshots taken of Streit in 1983.

Description Dates
1999-3550: Portrait of Clarence Streit
undated
1999-3551: Portrait of Robert Finch
undated
1999-3552: Unidentified young woman leaning on fence
undated
1999-3553: Streit at Gorden (?) Ranch
1983
1999-3554: Streit at Gorden (?) Ranch
1983
1999-3555: Unidentified young woman, Gorden Ranch (?)
undated
1999-3556: Unidentified young woman, Gorden Ranch (?)
undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Democracy
  • International relations
  • Internationalism--Societies, etc.

Personal Names

  • Achilles, Theodore C (Theodore Carter), 1905--Correspondence
  • Clayton, Will, 1880-1966--Correspondence
  • Findley, Paul, 1921---Correspondence
  • Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963--Correspondence
  • Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963--Correspondence
  • Nixon, Richard M (Richard Milhous), 1913---Correspondence
  • Roberts, Owen J (Owen Josephus), 1875-1955--Correspondence
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence

Corporate Names

  • Association to Unite the Democracies
  • International Movement for Atlantic Union, Inc.
  • University of Montana--Missoula--Alumni and alumnae
  • Atlantic Union Committee
  • Federal Union (U.S.)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Information Service
  • Conference of Strasbourg (1951)

Occupations

  • Internationalists--United States

Titles within the Collection

  • Freedom & union.