REPRINTS OF HISTORIC WORLD FEDERALIST DOCUMENTS

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A conference of some fifty men and women, interested in world peace and world organization, met at Dublin, N.H., from Oct. 11 to 16, 1945 to consider the question of how best to remedy the weaknesses of the United Nations Organization. The conference was called on the invitation of Hon. Owen J. Roberts, who recently resigned as Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Hon. Robert P. Baas, former Governor of New Hampshire; Grenville Clark, lawyer, of New York, and Thomas H. Mahony, lawyer, of Boston and chairman of Massachusetts Committee for World Federation. Judge Roberts presided at the conference.

 

Read the full New York Times piece here.

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In 1949 California World Federalists, led by their President Alan Cranston lobbied the California Legislature and secured a resolution which was jointly adopted by the Assembly and Senate which called for a, "...convention for the sole purpose of proposing amendment of the Constitution to expedite and insure the participation of the United States in a world federal government ... whether the proposed charter or constitution of such world federal government be presented in the form of amendments to the Charter of the United Nations, or by world constitutional convention, or otherwise; and be it further..."

 

Read the full resolution here.

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Montreux Declaration

August 23, 1947

 

Two years after the conclusion of World War II, more than 50 organizations from more than two dozen countries met in Montreux, Switzerland for the Conference of the World Movement for World Federal Government. The Montreux Declaration marked the end of the conference, and aimed to prevent future armed conflict through transitioning the United Nations into an authoritative global federal government that would legislate and enforce global law.

 

Read the declaration here.

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