I see that Mr. Clarence Streit, the author of Union
Now, is getting a plan for federal union between the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland advertised at immense expense in the American Press. No one here will object to that, though I rather wonder how Americans would take a similar campaign in the British Press by Englishmen who wanted to revolutionise the American constitution. For that is what the Streit plan would do to the constitution of the British Commonwealth (so far as it has got a constitution, which is not at all). The one thing the members of the Commonwealth look less and less like doing is federating, but never has their existing relationship shown itself more conspicuously adequate than in the last eleven months. Any American, and any Englishman, who advocates federation for the Commonwealth is in effect advocating its break-up.
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