Streit Calls Pact Step in Resolving World's Problems

The Atlantic Pact is an "Important emergency first step toward a real solution" of world problems, Clarence K. Streit told and enthusiastic audience in Langdell Hall Monday night.

Streit's address was sponsored by the Atlantic Union Committee, a political action group which advocates a federal union of free countries similar to one which Streit recommends in his book "Union Now".

Streit acknowledged that his union faces many obstacles, pointing out that "only one seventh of the human race has ever succeeded in practicing individual liberty, and that of this fraction half live in the United States." Secondly, he added, "in this poker game our cards are up while the Kremlin's are down." "The press is continually floodlighting our hand," he said, while "underneath the card table are people like Drew Pearson--performing a very useful function."

Under those conditions "we must hold the strongest hand possible to win the game," Streit stated. If a "federal union of the free" is established, he stated, "we will hold all four aces and the joker."

The four aces represent greater military power, a larger and more efficient industry, greater resources of raw material, and greater spirit, he stated. The joker, he concluded, is the fact that new nations would constantly be added to the "union of the free."