Historic Newspaper links that refer to Globalization, World Government, One World Government and the New World Order
1940-12-29: “World Near Realization of Wilson’s True Glory, Jeffersonians Told” – St. Petersburg Times
…Rep. Peterson, briefly eulogizing President Wilson, declared “he foresaw then the things that are happening today.” … “we may have to set up something new” in world government, just as the United States government was established, without precedent.
1941-01-18: “He Holds No Deep Fear of English Persistence” – The Pittsburgh Press
…”We haven’t had Britain’s experience in world involvement and world government. …we are about to get that experience within a very few years, if not months, either by joining other English-speaking peoples in dominating the world by and for our principles of life or in being ruled by and for a principle which would make us madmen or slaves of madmen.
1941-04-19: “DAR Endorces Material Aid To Britain at Annual Meet” – St. Petersburg Times
The Daughters of the American Revolution…opposed “all proposals for world political union, such as the movement known as ‘Union Now’ … the DAR noted with disapproval that “there are numberous plans to resign national sovereignty in behalf of world government in the name of peace and the new world order.”
1941-06-20: “Union of Nations Resolution Offered” – The Daily Times
Rep. Carleton T. Woodring, D, Northampton is the sponsor of a resolution pending in the House today to commit the United States in principle to creation of a Federal Union of Nations to be known as “The United Nations of the World“.
1941-07-01: “Asks Anti-Nazi Training” – The Lewiston Daily Sun
…Dr. Fred P. Corson of Dickinson College… “The battles of the Nazis in Germany were in the field of education. They taught and burned into the thinking of the people the Nazi ideas, and they are now fighting this phase of their battle in the American mind…”
1941-07-12: “Urges World Government” – Reading Eagle
A world government with military power to enforce its laws and decisions was advocated today by the International Christian Society. … “If there is to be justice and ordered happiness in the world…as individuals and states give up some of their sovereign prerogatives in the interest of the whole republic.”
1941-07-14: “The Fundamental Need” – Ottawa Citizen
…many are still opposed to the acceptance by the United States of any responsibility for the welfare of world community. Had we done this at the close of the last war we would have entered the League of Nations and helped to make an effective instrument for world government, peace and prosperity.
1941-07-29: “Peace Worker Visits Eugene” – Eugene Register Guard
William B. Lloyd, Jr., American director of “the campaign for world government,” and member of the “group for peace and a United States of the World,” … Tying in the work of his organization for a world government with the “V for Victory” campaign in Europe…
1941-08-11: “Cudahy Asks Peace Program” – Toledo Blade
“Let the President, with the approval of congress, propose an American program of peace…a peace with a new world order based on an association of nations, the inauguration of a sovereign international government…Back of this new world government, let us place the sanction of all the moral prestige and force in America.”
1941-09-23: “Jessup on America’s Problems” – The Palm Beach Post
“A world government, of the sort that can enforce its own decisions and laws, must by definition be supremely sovereign in the world, or as much of the world as it aims to govern…”
1941-10-08: “For Federal Union” – Ottawa Citizen
…so peace in the world must depend upon world government. … Germany…is fighting to give us her own world order—a world dominated by one tyrant nation. We, too, must fight for a world order, but one in which the nations may live in equality and freedom…
1941-11-01: “New Plan For World Presented” – The Pittsburgh Press
…it is the first responsibility of Christian American citizens to foster an educational program to prepare this country for co-operation in an effective system of world government when the opportunity arises.
1941-11-07: “Methodists Urge Nation to Abstain From Steps of War” – Berkeley Daily Gazette
…the United States should participate in a world government limiting national sovereignty “in the interest of humanity.”…
1941-11-23: “What About This Federal Union?” – The Sunday Morning Star
…Mr. Streit’s thought is that the United States…might form a federal union now with the…United Kingdom, Eire, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa… Such a union could control the world.
1941-11-24: “Radio: Long Views” – Time Magazine
…KCKN in Kansas City…last week was broadcasting a serial reading of Clarence Streit’s famous book Union Now. …Streit argues for immediate federal union…as a means of winning the war and forming the nucleus of a World Government…
1942-01-11: “What Is This Federal Union?” – The Sunday Morning Star
Dr. Irving Fisher, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Yale University and Dr. Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John’s college at Annapolis, to speak on world government at Y.M.C.A.
1942-02-08: “Sees Need of World Government to Help Prevent National Chaos” – The Milwaukee Journal
Dr. Howard J. McMurray of the University of Wisconsin…pointed to the need for world government as a means of controlling the anarchy of war… “A central government having power to carry on foreign affairs…power to coin money and tax, borrow and spend…and having the power to control interstate commerce and interstate communications, can substitute the rule of law for the rule of force over a large area of the world“
1942-02-12: “Nothing Which Insults the Soul” – Spartanburg Herald Journal
Said Dr. D. F. Fleming of Nashville: “It is accordingly inescapable that there will be some kind of world government. The bombing plane is destroying the sovereignty of every nation on earth, and it will keep right on doing so until a world sovereignty is created.”
1942-03-05: “Offer a New Plan for Post-War Peace” – Spokane Daily Chronicle
A “supernational” government commanding an allegiance which would supersede national loyalty was proposed today for the attainment of permanent world peace. John Foster Dulles, speaking to 350 representatives of Protestant denominations….. Dulles, who was secretary of the second Hague peace conference in 1907…..
1942-03-14: “Conference on Just Peace Urges New Evaluations of Modern Life” – The Pittsburgh Press
Protestant denominations…condemned the “grave defects” of the profit system…repudiated the doctrine of isolationism
1942-03-16: “Religion: American Malvern” – Time Magazine
…a world government of delegated powers… …abandonment of U.S. isolationism… …strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty… …international control of all armies & navies… …universal system of money…so planned as to prevent inflation and deflation… …worldwide freedom of immigration… …progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade… …A “democratically controlled” international bank…
1942-05-13: “World Federation For Peace Urged By New Jersey Woman” – Ottawa Citizen
…What we need after the war is a world government, which would have power to enforce laws, not a league which would not have that power. Isolationism will spring up again…unless we accomplish the educational work necessary to show we live in an international community.”
1942-06-29: “Episcopalians Urge World Government” – The Lewiston Daily Sun
Establishment and maintenance of a world Government with power would be the only adequate solution of international post-war difficulties… Dr. Vernon Nash: “A world government should be given power to control those phases of life which vitally affect the safety and welfare of all men, and no more”.
1942-07-05: “Federal Union Statement of Policy” – The Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, Delaware
Robert Wheelwright, of this city, was a member of the Resolutions Committee which prepared this platform. The chairman of the committee was Chester Davis, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
1942-10-08: “Baker Urges World League” – The Milwaukee Journal
…military protection through…world government… Dr. Frank Baker: “Adequate military protection can be provided only through a federal union or league of the democratic nations of the world….Such a league…would police the world…”
1942-10-19: “30 States Vote on Constitution Changes Nov. 3″ – Sarasota Herald Tribune
Thirty states will vote on 113 ammendments to their constitutions, referenda and initiative proposals in the November 3 elections… Massachusetts voters also will answer a “question of public policy” in 40 representative districts…to frame a federal constitution under which they may unite in a “democratic world government.”
1942-11-04: “Democratic World Government Favored In Massachusetts” – The Evening Independent
A referendum suggesting a “democratic world government” has been adopted in Massachusetts in the first expression by a United States electorate concerning a possible union of nations.
1942-11-12: “8:30 PM – WSUN – America’s Town Meeting of the Air” – St. Petersburg Times
“Resolved: That a Federal World Government Should Be Established”… Cyde Eagleton, professor of international law at New York university; Vernon Nash, executive director of the National Peace conference; Malcolm Bingay and David H. Wills.
1942-11-17: “Federal World Government Advocated by Dr. Nash” – St. Petersburg Times
Establishment of a Federal world government and the problem of winning the peace after victory has been assured, highlighted the address of Dr. Vernon Nash …..”our true alternative very soon will be union by compulsion or union by consent”… “the almost universally recognized objective is a world order in which at least a tolerable measure of justice, security and opportunity is guaranteed to all men.”
1942-11-17: “World Board of Government Plan Outlined” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
A proposed world government that would uphold international law was proposed by Robert Lee Humber, Rhodes scholar and an authority on international law…
1942-12-03: “Resolutions Are Adopted By Reform Body At Meeting” – The Daily Times
…Dr. Robert F. Galbreath, president of Westminster College… To win the peace a new world order must be established by the community of nations…
1942-12-25: “Central World Rule Urged” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Establishment of a World Federation in which all governments surrender their “diverse national sovereignties to a world government to be ruled by an international sovereignty of reason, social justice and peace” The World Federation plan endorced by the Sewickley Post is the conception of Robert Lee Humber…
1943-01-09: “Mr. Wallace’s New World” – St. Petersburg Times
Mr. Wallace…has recommended an international air force, with ports throughout the world. The idea…is not new: it was advanced by H. G. Wells a long time ago and Mr. Wells has shown great prophetic gifts. …who is to control such an air force? ..Is it to be controlled by a grand alliance of the United Nations?
1943-01-21: “Propose State Vote on World Govt. Plan” – Schenectady Gazette
The legislature was urged today to sound New York sentiment on whether the United States should initiate plans “at the earliest feasible time” for a world government.
1943-02-05: “Dr. Temple on Finance” – The Glasgow Herald
World Bank Proposal: Dr. Temple said there had lately been a proposal from some people in the United States for setting up a world bank to control the credit of the world. “As far as I know, it will be responsible to nobody…..So you would have an instance of irresponsible power…if you regard it as automatic that irresponsible power is always an evil, you will be very shy of this expedient coming in at this stage of human history. …I am assured that this scheme contemplates the absolute fluidity of labour, so that people may be transferred not only from one part of their country to another but from one country to another. That means you are treating human beings primarily as instruments of production. That is simply immoral.”
1943-02-08: “Isolationist Leader Set to Speak Here” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Attorneys Edward O. Tabor and Joseph A. Beck…to speak in opposition to world government… Tabor…belonged to “Fight for Freedom” and is a leader in “Free World Association”… The group…is known as the “Defenders of George Washington’s Principles” and is headed by Charles A. Madden…stands for “maintenance of American independence.”
1943-02-21: “Long Months of ‘Holding On’ Seen Past” – Reading Eagle
Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John’s College at Annapolis, Md., was the first contributor… He wrote that we are not fighting for freedom alone, but for a world government…
1943-03-09: “Minnesota Governor Urges Allies to Form New World Government to Keep Peace” – St. Petersburg Times
Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, advocate of a United Nations world government, declared last night that two World wars and a world-wide depression in a single generation “speak loudly and tragically” of the need “for a new and higher level of government.” (This same article can also be found here.)
1943-04-28: “Tells of New World Order” – The Milwaukee Journal
The public demand for some type of world organization after the war must be met if the future of today’s youth is to be insured…
1943-06-06: “Stassen Faces Forward” – The Milwaukee Journal
Harold E. Stassen…opens his second article in the Saturday Evening Post, boldly headed “We Need a World Government”.
1943-07-04: “McMurray Advocates a World Government” – The Milwaukee Journal
Establishment of a new world government after the war…was advocated here Saturday night by Representative Howard J. McMurray…
1943-07-21: “Mark Sullivan: Plans Advanced for Post-War World Federation…” – The Lewiston Daily Sun
…contemplates some kind of world government, some kind of international union or federation… …it is not thinkable that the United States will enter any international union or world government without the people understanding clearly…what they are committing themselves to. …Less and less of the taxes we raised would be used for our own purposes, more and more for the purposes of the international union government.
1943-07-28: “Declares Attempt Will Be Made to Block New League” – Ottawa Citizen
That so-called realists, who are really isolationist so far as the world affaris are concerned, would attempt to block the setting up of the League of Nations again after the war…
1943-08-31: “Urges Postwar Russian Pact” – The Milwaukee Journal
“Until we have had more experience in world government, it is doubtful if the American people will agree to have an international police force under the absolute control of the council of nations.”
1943-09-13: “Proposes Force to Keep Peace: Hull Asks World Court” – The Milwaukee Journal
Secretary of State Hull: “Readiness to use force…for the maintenance of peace is indispensable… “…Woodrow Wilson…warned us of the kind of world we would face if we turned down the League of Nations.”
1943-09-25: “More About Peace Plan” – St. Petersburg Times
Culbertson’s plan was even more gradiose—a world federation. The world government would comprise a president, 11 world trustees, a world senate and a world supreme court. It would be a world military alliance with peace guaranteed by a world military force.
1943-09-30: “Veterans Rap Postwar Plan: Oppose Flag Change” – The Milwaukee Journal
The Veterans of Foreign Wars placed itself on record…as “unalterably opposed” to any proposal to bring the United States “into a world government or superstate.”
1943-10-01: “Asks Veterans to Limit Aims” – The Milwaukee Journal
The Veterans of Foreign Wars was advised by its new commander-in-chief, Carl J. Schoeninger…to stop “attempting to dictate and decide world affairs far beyond our scope of comprehension.”
1943-11-06: “Beware of a Super-State” – The Pittsburgh Press
Let us beware lest our search for world peace through collective security lead to the building of a too-powerful international super-state. …Thomas Jefferson taught us that that government is best which governs least. We have not always remembered that lesson. …Let us have only the minimum of international government.
1943-11-10: “Armistice Day Set by Governor Snell” – Eugene Register Guard
Snell pointed out that “world government day” observance has also been set for next Thursday…
1943-11-13: “World Political System Urged” – The Milwaukee Journal
A. J. G. Priest, New York attorney, chairman of the board of the Federal Union: “the people will have to surrender some part of each nation’s complete sovereignty to a world government” which could provide a world police force….
1943-12-14: “Editor Outlines Post-War Ideas” – Spokane Daily Chronicle
McCormick said “nothing could be more fatal to our country, and for the countries which some of our citizens prefer to our own, than some gradiose scheme of world government.”
1943-12-15: “McCormick Defines Americanism Creed” – Reading Eagle
Col. Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, called today for a “realistic and patriotic” foreign policy… He quoted Lincoln…in a prepared address…”this country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.”
1943-12-16: “McCormick ‘Reveals’ He Helped Defend Detroit from British Army” – The Montreal Gazette
McCormick said “nothing could be more fatal to our country…than some gradiose scheme of world government. The League of Nations failed because its members would not stand by their agreements. It is utterly false to say that our non participation had anything to do with the failure…”
1944-01-23: “Cracker In the Capital: Pepper Wants FDR For ‘President of World’” – The Miami News
Sen. Claude Pepper…he would like to nominate President Roosevelt to be president of the United States of the world…
1944-01-25: “World’s Policing Is Held Essential” – The Montreal Gazette
Ely Culbertson yesterday outlined his quota force principle… …the World government (whose only power will be that of enforcing action…) will be made up of 13 trustees…
1944-02-27: “Leslie Balogh Bain: A Plan for World Democracy” – The Miami News
The president of the U. S….should immediately issue an invitation to all peoples of the world to the effect that…he or his successor will call a preliminary meeting of representatives…to consider whether or not they wish to participate in a constitutional convention…for the purpose of forming a Federal Union of Democracies for World Government.
1944-03-01: “What Would Mr. Tomas Do?” – The Milwaukee Journal
Norman Thomas: “Our foreign policy is the most irresponsible, personal, even dictatorial in the world, except Russia’s.” … “I am opposed to any highly organized central world government. It would only displace international wars with civil wars…”
1944-03-18: “Organising for Peace” – The Age
Lord Davies’s pamphlet is an extremely sound exposition of the vew that world peace depends on the establishment of proper international institutions to guarantee and maintain peace. …unless the powers of the sovereign States are curbed, unless an effective international authority is established…then another world war is bound to succeed this.
1944-03-21: “World Government Setup Not Likely” – The Deseret News
A host of objections are raised from an American viewpoint, which comprise the following major ideas: …next to religious faith, the deepest of spiritual emotions are love of country and patriotism…
1944-03-28: “Editor Denounces Super-Government” – The Deseret News
…the United States…will have one of 44 votes, the British Empire six and Russia sixteen. McCormick said: “This super-government is to have power to levy taxes on us without our consent”… “Unbelievable as it is, a justice of our Supreme Court is a leading advocate of this world anarchy and so is our secretary of state.”
1944-04-22: “World Monetary Plan, With Gold Base, Advocated” – The Lewiston Daily Sun
Treasury technicians of 34 nations announced tonight their agreement on broad outlines for a proposed $8,000,000,000 gold-based stabilization fund designed to restore order to international finance and promote world prosperity. …While a nation might withdraw from the fund, its quoted obligations would be liquidated at rates prevailing before any devaluation had been attempted.
1944-06-24: “Crusade Before Blueprint” – The Canadian Register
Mr. Lewis Duncan…has written…an article entitled “Blueprint of World Order.” He demands nothing less than a World Government with a World Legislature with “exclusive jurisdiction to legislate on matters of world concern, such as war and peace, armed forces, currency, weights and measures, standards of labour and of living, intercontinental trade, health, and taxation for foregoing purposes.” He even suggests that education may be put under the World Government.
1944-08-29: “Dictatorship to Rise From Parley” – The Milwaukee Sentinel
A world state patterned more or less on the totalitarian communist Soviet Union: a super-world government in which…great powers by virtue of their monopoly of decisive armed might and force would be supreme… Mr. Roosevelt, now president for the last 12 years and desirous of a fourth term, is making his own League of Nations with the aid of Dictator Josef Stalin, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1944-12-15: “Urges Unity of Great Powers to Realize New World Hopes” – Ottawa Citizen
Prime Minister Churchill today confessed disappointment at delays in reconvening the “Big Three” and bespoke unity among the great powers lest a new structure of world government die in inception.
1944-12-21: “Quebec City: World Centre?” – The Montreal Gazette
Mr. Lionel Curtis, of Oxford, prophet of the British Commonwealth…suggests that Quebec City should become the centre of Commonwealth government…the centre of world government.
1949-10-21: “World Government Movement Aims To Spike War Weapons” – The Rock Hill Herald
…The writers seem to be convinced that with Russia possessing the A-bomb, the only hope for peace is through world government.





