Survival Meetings
Highlights of The World Government Movement, 1947 To 1952 A Personal Journey
by  Richard V. Carter

Many veterans came back from World War II determined to find a way to prevent another war. They and thousands of others around the world launched the world government movement, energized by two main themes: save the world from nuclear annihilation, and transform the United Nations from an assembly of independent sovereign nations into a true government of, by, and for the people. Gradually the former gave way to a more urgent cause: to help create a world community as a basis for democratic world governance.

In the end the movement did not realize its dream. The closest it came was the creation, by a stellar committee at the University of Chicago, of a Draft Constitution for the World, a document of international law and a challenge to the UN charter.

The effort made believers of teachers and preachers, businesspeople and politicians, and the most prominent atomic scientists who had created the nemesis of the bomb. And it made a responsible world citizen out of the author, a World Federalist living in Northern California. This is a very prejudiced account of a few of the people and events in this new search for world order.

270 pages, paperback. Published by iUniverse, Inc., 2000.
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