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  • Peace aims – February 1940

    Professor John Ryle was an Independent Progressive candidate in the Cambridge University by-election in the spring of 1940, and a declared supporter of Federal Union. We reprint below the salient […]

  • India and “Federal Union”

    By Dr Eddy Asirvatham (University of Madras) I. THE FAILURE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS When the World War of 1914-18 was being fought, there were many who sincerely believed […]

  • Membership leaflet 1939

    Federal Union membership leaflet published in late 1939  membershipleaflet

  • The rights of man

    Leaflet published by the Merseyside Federal Union Society, 1939 (read it in the original format here rightsofman) THE RIGHTS OF MAN ….. THIS is what we are at war to […]

  • Federal Union aims – 1939

    From Federal Union News, number 5, 21/10/39 The London Council Meeting A meeting of the Council was held on Wednesday, October 4th, and the following short Statement of Aims was […]

  • Does nationalism make sense?

    from “The Case for Federal Union”, by W B Curry (published in 1939)   When the adjustment [in reaction to technological development] takes place across national frontiers, vested interests are […]

  • Federal Union and The League of Nations

    By Richard Law MP Most people learn by experience, but not everyone learns the right lesson. In 1919 we thought that we were going to promote freedom in Europe, banish […]

  • from “Why war?”

      by C E M Joad   “My case is that war is not something that is inevitable, but is the result of certain man-made circumstances; that man can abolish […]

  • The ending of armageddon

      By Lord Lothian   or the federal principle as the only basis for international peace, liberty and prosperity The greatest disappointment from which mankind has suffered since the Great […]

  • Pacifism is not enough

    The text of “Pacifism is not enough” was delivered by Lord Lothian as the Burge Memorial Lecture on 28 May 1935.  It is rightly recognised as one of the essential […]

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