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Acceptances
to the World Advisory Council Dear Garry Davis,
Thank you for including me in your thinking for the new advisory council.
Forestry Commision You know how much I share your thoughts and hopes. Of course I shall be happy to serve on the Advisory Council of the foundation, if the board of directors considers this to be useful. Probably the greatest contribution most of the proposed council members can make is to find suitable, but consideably younger successors. I shall be seeing, probably, both Yehudi Menuhin and Peter Ustinov in Sept. when we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the world federalist movement in Montreuz. Maitre Max habicht, an international lawyer and Quaker and old friend of mine, called the first meeting in 1947 in Monteux. He is no longer with us and is sorely missed by other activists. All good wishes to your first meeting of the board.
With greetings to all,. Dear Garry,
I am honored by the invitation to serve on the Advisory Council of the new World Citizen Foundation, and pleased to accept.
University of Peace I was delighted to receive your letter of 21 April and kind invitation to join you in your Advisory Council of the newly formed World Citizen Foundation. It comes at a time when I am myself considering the creation of a Foundation next to the University for Peace on my 250 acres of primeval tropical, sacred land including Mount Rasur, wherefrom the God of the indigenous children appeared to them and predicted that from that hill a civilization of peace will extend the entire world. As you could guess, I accept with enthusiasm your good offer and will help you in any way I can. A first idea: please write to Desmond Berghofer and Geraldine Schwartz who organized a wonderful meeting of eleven schools in Vancouver to celebrate Global Citizenship on 6 April when there remained 1000 days to the first of January 2000. The children and youth formulated their visions of the next century. Inform them of the creation of the Foundation and ask them to send you their documents and list of ideas of the youth. I am waiting for their final report to include them in my 2000 ideas to the year 2000. and to send them also the Secretary General of the UN. Herewith two main documents which I kept for that historical meeting. We need a world movement or association of all groups around the world anxious to see the birth of a global citizenship and one world. I develop several ideas in this respect in my 2000 ideas and recommend also that a major publisher should republish the Anatomy of Peace as a world best-seller. The world federalists are republishing Planethood by Ken Keyes and Ben Ferenz. I have recommended Ben Ferenz for the Nobel Prize for Peace. With warm greetings of one who has never forgotten the man at the bridge of Kehl. When I return to Strasbourg in June I will go to it and thank God that your dream and that of Robert Schuman was fulfilled. Alas, Robert Shuman is dead. I went to his tomb to report it to him in 1994 when I crossed the bridge for the first time without any control.
Yours ever,
Office of the Mayor
I accept gladly your invitation to become a member of the Advisory Council for the World Citizen Foundation.
Best regards,
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