In 1918, a man who was the head of a government that was not a state decided that the American political system could be used as a model for a world union of states. He dashed bravely ahead with his idea eager to put in operation a new worldwide organization of all the states and empires on earth that would make another world war in the future impossible. Woodrow Wilson, a democrat elected president in 1912, actively and passionately used American power for worldwide good. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, he worked as forcefully as he could to keep America out of it. Instead of rushing into the war on the side of England and France against Germany, he stuck to his pacifist principles and using American diplomatic channels, tried to get the three powers to negotiate an end to the war rather than to continue fighting. When the German navy’s submarine warfare became intolerable and forced him to declare war on Germany, on January 8 1918 he argued before Congress that he was fighting the war for a moral purpose and he outlined 14 points that he believed, if accepted by governments worldwide, would end all wars and establish peace and goodness universally. His American union of states had given their central government control over interstate commerce and had removed all economic barriers between their states establishing an equality of trade conditions. President Wilson wanted this principle to become universal among all states in the world for in Point 3 he called for “The removal of all economic barriers and the establishment of equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance”. In other words, he was proposing one principle of what we advocate, a united states of the world with open borders for free trade worldwide just as free trade existed in the United States. Of course such a world economic union would not work unless all states worldwide agreed to no longer wage war on one another. The American states had agreed to unite to make war impossible among one another and so President Wilson with the peaceful condition of America in mind proposed an association of states to guarantee the political independence of every state worldwide. His Point 14 said, “A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.” The League of Nations that he wanted did not mean that every state worldwide would become a state in the American union of states. Yet he was proposing a worldwide union. The president of the United States had the courage to call for a united states of the world! What other model could he have used for the good future organization of the world except the one that had worked so well in his own union of states?
Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.
The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.
tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845
Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:00 pm. July 24 6:00 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:00 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.
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