Reves' Ideas Still Relevant
April 3, 1997
Dear Garry:

Thank you for sending me the latest issue of World Citizen News. A very interes ting piece of work. You surely coverd a large territory in Emery Reves' life! I am sure that with some of your conclusions he would have agreed but on other points a lively argument would have ensued.
Anyway, I think it is a tribute to Emery's ideas that 50 years after the publication of The Anatomy of Peace what he said is still stirring up an emotional debate between peole who in their own way are searching for answers to how to bring peace to this world. With best wishes,

Frank Shatz,
Wil liamsburg, VA, USA

Your devotion of four pages in the April-May 1997 issue of World Citizen News to the "Emery Reves Saga" brings into focus a much neglected aspect of the post World War II history of world government.
As one who has taken a great interest in Emery Reves ever since I was introduced to The Anatomy of Peace by my wife for whom it had been compulsory reading at her conservative New England boarding school in 1946, I was very excited to read in the New York Times in 1989 that Wendy Reves was endowing a Center for International Studies at the College of William and Mary. I was further pleased when I learned that Dr. James Bill would be its Director and Bill Moyers it s dedicator. From then on, however, it was all down hill as far as I was concerned.
Bill Moyers' dedication speech in 1989 appeared to be a glowing tribute to Emery Reves but on close observation by one familiar with The Anatomy of Peace in fact triv ialized Reves' contribution to mankind's desire for peace. The sentiments attributed to Reves were of course on the side of the angels referring to general concepts which were unarguable to all people of good willÑsuch as the avoidance of ethnocentrism, the expansion of a sense of community, adherence to ethical and moral principles leading to cooperative behavior and that we are human beings as well as Americans and so on.
Moyers, however, skillfully danced around all the hard hitting and controvers ial action-oriented points actually made by Reves in The Anatomy of Peace. By stating that in the audience were the Schatzs who left Czechoslovakia in 1954 with just one book in their knapsack, Moyers suggested the tremendous importance of this book, but never mentioned a specific thing that would account for this importance. In view of these gross omissions in favor of a parade of clichŽs, let me quote a series of passages that indicate what Anatomy of Peace is really about and what in it made the like s of Einstein, Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Fulbright, Mortimer Adler and Thomas Mann urge Americans to read this book and on the popular level why its message was spread to millions by the Reader's Digest and even Walter Winchel's millions of radio listeners.
Here are some of these passages from The Anatomy of Peace:
"The first step toward ending the present chaos is to overcome the tremendous emotional obstacle which prevents us from realizing and admitting that the ideal o f the sovereign nation-state with all its record of success during the nineteenth century, is today the cause of all the immeasurable suffering and misery of this world. We are living in complete anarchy, because in a small world, interrelated in every o ther respect, there are seventy or eighty separate sources of lawÑseventy or eighty sovereignties.
"Democratic sovereignty of the people can be correctly expressed and effectively instituted only if local affairs are handled by local governments, nati onal affairs by national government and international, world affairs by international, world government.
"For several thousand years man has given innumerable chances to treaty structures between sovereign power units to demonstrate that they can prev ent war. With the possibility of atomic war facing us, we cannot risk reliance upon a method that has failed miserably hundreds of times and never succeeded once. A realization that this method can never prevent war is the first condition of peace. Law and only law can bring peace among men; treaties never can.
"The San Francisco League is not a first step toward a universal legal order. To change from a treaty basis to law is one step, one operation and it is impossible to break it into parts or fractions. This decision has to be made and the operation carried out at one time. There is no Ôfirst step' toward world government. World government is the first step.
"The most vulgar of all objections, of course, is the meaningless assertion mad e by so many Ôpublic figures': ÔThe people are not yet ready for world federation.' One can only wonder how they know. Have they themselves ever advocated world federation? Do they themselves believe in it? Have they ever tried to explain to the peop le what makes war and what is the mechanism of peace in human society? And after having understood the problem, have the people rejected the solution and decided they did not want peace by law and government but preferred war by national sovereignty? Un til this happens no one has the right to pretend that he knows what the people are ready for. Ideals always seem premature until they become obsolete.
"We should elect nobody to public office who has not pledged himself in advance to work wholehearte dly to prevent the next war by the establishment of peace through law and government."
"An irresistible popular demand must be made articulate in every country as soon as possible. And when in two or more countries the people have clearly expressed t heir will the process of federation must star
t." The final irony is that while in 1946 The Anatomy of Peace was required reading even in boarding schools such as Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1997 we learn from the Director of the Wendy an d Emery Reves Center for International Studies that it is not required reading at the Center bearing the Reves' name.
For those who might claim that the concept of world government might have been relevant in 1946 but not in 1997, it is of interest to refer to the views on this subject of Walter Cronkite voted the most trusted man in the United States. Cronkite, who first saw world government as a necessity on the basis of his coverage of the Nuremberg Trials following World War II, stated in Februar y 1997 that "in the half century since then my belief in a strong world government has been reinforced by so much of the international history I have covered".

Sincerely,
Francis S. Bourne
Retired Foreign Service Officer
GENI Internatiomal Update

25 March 1997
Dear Garry,

We've had a great monthÑtaking this project to Japan and the heart of the American south: Atlanta. Let me summarize how your support has helped us push this initiative globally. PVTEC, a Jap anese firm that is pursuing large photovoltaic systems hosted a GENI (Global Energy Network International) presentation at their workshop entitled, "Large solar systems in desert regions of the world". While some of the costs are still prohibitive, there are several Japanese visionaries working to build large solar arrays in the Gobi Desert of China and link the energy of their populous east coast (along the old Silk Road from Moscow to Beijing). I was a featured speaker at this conference.
While in T okyo, we also met with the Global Infrastructure Fund of Japan, the United Nations University and Soka Gakkai (A Buddhist organization committed to peace). I even suggested the "unthinkable project" of an underwater electric cable between Japan and South Korea, who are long-standing enemies. Using the examples of East/West Germany and Israel/Jordan, they saw the potential benefits could outweigh their deep animosities.
In Atlanta, I was thrilled to make two presentations at the Carter Presidential Cen ter. We would love for the Carter Center to include this global strategy into their conflict resolution program around the world. Stay tuned.
We then took the opportunity to visit several producers at the CNN Environmental Documentary Unit. We're look ing for their partnership (financial and in-kind) in our film/documentary entitled The Power Planet.. The two-page brief is enclosed for your review. This film will merge the best of our two videos: What If...A New Global Option and A Win-Win Solution for a one-hour feature for television. These two GENI videos are excellent and still available for $20 each. If you have any resources for this educational project, please let us know.
Garry, I want to thank you for helping us drive this initiative. It's still a new idea to many key people and organizations (like those mentioned above). Your contribution makes this work possible.

In partnership for the planet,
Peter Meisen, President
PO Box 81565, San Diego, CA 92138, USA

A Cold and Hungry World
In a message dated 97-04-26 17:26:03 EDT, you (SuthnDixie) write:

'Why do we need,as you say, a "super nation" to keep the peace? What is there to make you believe a Pax New World Order would ultimately be better th an the Pax Romana of the Romans? You are implying that it would be a peace kept by brutal force if necessary. Much of the brutal force of the Romans was exerted, not for justice, but to enforce the will of the Caesars. What "balance of powers" was there t hen? What individual rights? As a matter of fact, a pax new world order that is as effective as the Pax Romana, would be just fine, although, as Ira Strauss pointed out in his excellent article, the chance of this happening has already passed, at least f or the near future.'

There is a need for a governmental superstructure for a whole variety of reasons. For example, nations are just not very good at regulating certain actions once the border is crossed. We have international criminals who lite rally get away with murder, on a grand scale, no less, because they know that no one can prosecute them. Laws of nations stop at their borders. Beyond those borders, a criminal becomes like a new man.
Nuclear weapons and, generally, weapons of mass destruction are another realm where nations have failed their duty to protect their citizens. Actually, though, it is not just that they did not protect their own citizens from harm but that they put others in harm's way as well. And this includes futu re generations.
Never before has man had the ability to destroy the planet. There is enough nuclear tonnage, ready to detonate, to annihilate the world several times over. The problem with this is that the collateral effect of any sort of nuclear co nfrontation is so large, suddenly, the invocation of national sovereignty becomes an empty slogan. People and countries that might have nothing to do with any conflict, would, nevertheless, be destroyed as well.
This means, that other countries no w have an interest in what happens to nuclear weapons. It is not possible to claim that national sovereignty protects us from their prying eyes. We cannot say that it is not any of their business. It has become the business of every single creature on this planet whose life is directly threatened.
National sovereignty, as a stable system, has already been abolished. People just don't know it yet. We have been lucky so far. I cannot point to any weapon in history that, once it was created, was n ot used to its fullest extent possible in a life and death struggle between nations. Such a thing has never existed. It is folly to think this would change. You see, the government, ANY government, has already lost the ability to protect its citizens f rom the "enemy". The Nuclear powers of the world have recognized this fact by fashioning a new concept of "almost war" called Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD. Having lost the ability to protect, they have appointed themselves as avengers.
Sover eignty as it is represented to the people of the world, today, is already an illusion. I am no sage but rest assured that something somewhere will go awry and the nuclear bottle will be uncorked once more. India and Pakistan, perhaps? Israel and Iraq? Who can say? But the folly of man knows no bounds.
Such an event is what I call a catalyst. It will transform the political mindset of the world in an instant. At that moment, people, worldwide will realize what has existed in fact for some time. The age of nations has ended. What you see around you today, is but the dying remnant of the prenuclear world.
The event I speak of will have dire consequences for everyone. The affected nations, will, most likely become nuclear wastelands, uninh abitable for eons to come. Nuclear fallout will enter the atmosphere and be carried by the jet stream around the globe. No place on earth will be unaffected. The dust and debris thrown up will obscure the sun and lower world temperatures by several deg rees. Crop failures will affect the agricultural regions of most of the planet. Famine will visit places where it was thought to have been banished many years ago. Existing political structures will not be able to bear the strain of such calamities. At that moment, when the world is at a crossroads, with political structures crumbling and the economic survival of the planet in doubt, two choices will present themselves: Utter chaos and confusion OR the world will come together, as people sometimes do in a crisis and form a political superstructure to deal with the emergency. If they should do the latter, two more choices become apparent. Control vs liberty. In effect, Freedom vs Tyranny. Under stress and when threatened with death and destruction, people will likely choose the quick fix of despotism to make things right again.
So I am suggesting that we have a real opportunity, knowing what we know, to preempt this chain of events, by erecting a democratic superstructure, encompassing all cit izens of all nations. Even if this structure is not in operation by the time the catalytic event takes place, it will become the obvious substitute to a discredited nation-state system that was unable to prevent the present disaster. THAT is why we need a World Government. The purpose is not to overthrow the existing institutions. No! Rather it is to preserve them! It is essentially a conservative intent. It is the least radical of choices with the advantage of deliberation and time. Once the catal yst occurs, the choices are fewer and deliberation is short.

Alex Tyrell

Our Global Village
24 March 1997
Dear Garry,

A federalist article I wrote half a century ago was then published in French in the magazine Parlem ent in Belgium. It recently reappeared in M.A.S., a magazine written entirely in Latin and edited in the Pyrenees, with the result that two copies of my book, "The Parliament of Man", were ordered, one by the wife of a Norwegian school headmaster, the oth er (through the intermediary of F.C.E., the Luxembourg federalist paper) by a savant in Uruguay.
As CNN would say, this makes the 34th "country and territory" in which the book circulates. This news may possibly be announced to the world from Vermont by the organ of the World Citizens!

Yours sincerely,
Harold S. Bidmead, World Citizen No. 12,345
Nedre Slottsgate 4
N-0157 Oslo, Norway

Letters From the Internet
February 18, 1997
Dear Sir or Madam:

Firs t of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Peter. I am a citizen of Ukraine. Recently I have obtained the information about your organization from one of your members. There are many people in my country who might be interested in getting your WSA i dentity cards and to become "World Citizen". However, the difficult financial situation of my country doesn't allow our people to find out anything about yours. I would like to "distribute" the information and ideas of freedom among them. Therefore cou ld you tell me how I can become your official or non-official partner in my region?
Also I've heard that you issue a mini-book of information where you describe SA, WGWC, IRP, etc. I would be very obliged to you, if you will send it to me.
And l ast, I would like to get the WSA passport, included IRP, IEV, but I have got only electronic application form. Will this form be accepted? Could I get any payment discount for WSA documents and passport if I become your "dealer"?
I'm looking forward to your reply.

Sincerely yours,
Peter

February 2, 1997
Dear Mr. Davis,

We are pretty fed up with the system. The thought of being a neutral human being appeals to us very much. We really like your idea of the world passport. Please send us some information. Please let us know, also, if there is any experience about relocations with the world passport.

Sincerely,
Doris and Peter

May 1, 1997
Matsudo City, Japan
Dear Sir,

I am afraid of surprising you by sending a mail suddenly. But I would like to inform you th at I have opened a home page for the establishment of World Government, titled, "World Government Institute," "http://www.justnet.or.jp/home/toshio-suzuki/" and "http://www.justnet.or.jp/" This is a private institute focused on the establishment of the World Government.
The basi c thought is written in the paper by Toshio Suzuki, "International Party for the World Government". It is to establish the international party with a headquarter party in one country and a branch part in each country. I would like you to visit my site, read my paper, and give me a comment.

Yours sincerely,
Toshio Suzuki

March 24, 1997
Mumbai, Bombay, India
Dear Mr. Davis,

I am thrilled to read the profound declaration of the objectives of the World Citizensh ip. I would like to become an Institutional memberâÑthat represents the constituency of SENIOR CITIZENS (6000 in number) who are subscribes to my magazine Dignity Dialogue, the magazine for Productive Ageing. As Editor and Publisher, and MD of the compan y which publishes this magazine and runs several services for senior citizens, all of whom AR highly educated, professional retireesÑvery active and youthfulÑI can, in stroke make 6000 members all India subscribe to your movement.
I plan o carry your objectives in my magazine, if you do not have copyright reservations, and tell members they are all now part of the World Citizenship. Ours is a not-for-profit organization, and as such we can just barely manage to become a corporate member if you can ad mit all the 6000 of us in one go. And call them DIGNITARIANS from IndiaÑthat's how we refer to them. Alternatively, I become member on behalf of all. But I would like to tell them they are WORLD CITIZENS now.
If this is acceptable to you, I will se nd in the subscription of $100. The contact person can be myself, and I will be able to create a page for you for your exclusive communication in my magazine. Seniors are especially fed up of the local political elite. I look forward to hearing from yo u.

With Regards,
Dr. (Ms.) Sheilu Sreenivasan
5 Shail Sagar Building
Swami Gynyan Jeevandas
Dedar East
Mumbai 400 015 (Bombay), India
Phone 91-22-202 8805/284 6787

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