For many years an Atlantic Union Resolution was introduced every session in the U.S. Congress, by Rep. Paul Findley, Donald Fraser, and Morris Udall as the lead co-sponsors, to call an "Atlantic Convention" which its proponents hoped would draft a constitution to be submitted for ratification to the countries represented.
The idea of Atlantic Union had its origin in the fertile brain of an Englishman named Cecil Rhodes.
Committees were set up all over America, and Mr. Streit reported that over two million Americans had signed petitions asking for union with Britain.
In his pamphlets Streit asks the question: "Does the rise of socialism in some Western European democracies prevent our federating with them?"
The first president of this Committee was former Supreme Court justice Owen J. Roberts, who said he considers national sovereignty a "silly shibboleth."