JF Ptak Science Books   Post 2695   History of Lines series

This Outsider-y pamphlet on the reorganization of the world after the end of WWII was a very unexpected find.  Some of the thinking in the text could make your eyebrows touch your cheeks from their dubious logic and idea base, but it is the map to illustrate the distribution of political existence for most of the countries of our planet that is the most remarkable component of this exegesis. 

First things first: I cannot find the author’s name, though it is doubtful that I would have posted it here, given the amusement park wonderfulness of this foreign policy.  The bumpy title of this far-reaching work , United Nations of the World Washington, D.C. U.S.A. January 1, 1942, Started the New World Era Called the Dawn of the Golden Age Which is the Beginning of the End of all World Destructive Forces, should give a bit of a hint to what might follow…at least this is the case for many of the 1000-odd Naive Surreal/Outsider Logic pamphlets in my “collection”.  The work (11×8.5″, 14 printed leaves, 8 maps) was printed on April 25, 1942 (so noted on the last page, along with the manuscript annotation, “Plato”), and made its way here via the Library of Congress. The pamphlet began its journey though at the White House–in the right corner of the pamphlet cover you can see the rubber stamped “Respectfully Referred to the Department of State” followed by [some name], “Secretary to the President”. As it turns out that name was Marvin H. McIntyre, who indeed was the secretary to the president. McIntyre has been with Roosevelt since the later’s VP campaign in 1920, and then joined FDR at the White House in 1933, when he remained as one of the three secretaries to FDR until he died in 1943. In any event, the author must’ve sent his idea of re-arranging the world directly to Roosevelt; McIntyre though it better for Roosevelt to not be distracted by this work and no doubt sent it off for the DOS people to deal with. The very faded rubber stamp at bottom seems to indicate that it was received at State in May 1942, which means it made a rocket exit from the WH. Then either something or nothing happened until it was sent to the Library of Congress in 1947.

The main deal here is that the United Nations of the World seems to be composed of five countries–the U.S., Great Britain, France, China, and France–with the headquarters in Washington D.C. (including a small part of Virginia “and some of Delaware”) because “a more appropriate place on Earth Planet cannot be found for UNITED NATIONS OF THE WORLD”.  How the distribution of national identities, the disappearance of most national governments, property, wealth, armies, navies, and so on, is accomplished, I do not know, as there isn’t a clue in the work.  I do know that the author complained of too many curved lines for boundaries and insisted on straight lines. That didn’t stop him from going curvey, though, as we can see in the development in North America, where for some reason San Francisco is now an “IS” or “International State” called “the Golden Era”.  

Some of the other changes introducing the new International States include:

• “Light” (Canada);
• “Petain” (West Africa);
• “Eden” (the Middle East);
• “McArthur” [sic] (northern Japan);
• “Confucius” (southern Japan); 
• “Liberty” (the USSR)
• “Liberty” (Belgium and Holland and other bits and pieces);
• “Edison” (northern Germany);
• “Franklin” (southern Germany);
• “Lincoln (norther Italy);
• “Plato” (southern Italy);
• “Stalin” (Bulgaria);
• “Lenin” (the Baltics);
• “Wavell” (Papua New Guinea);
• “Wellington” (New Zeland);
• “Churchill” (central-ish Africa)
• Turkey would become part of Russia (“in 1950 A.D.”).

There are a number of others, all findable in the expandable images below.

In the end, the U.S., “Russia”, “England”, China, and France (for reasons unknown) would “own over 66 2/3 of all lands of Earth”. 

 There is no indication how all of this would work, including 2/3 of the world being “owned” by the five countries. Of all the problematic bits in this work perhaps the problematiciest is the voting arrangement in the Supreme World Court, which would create an equal voting block between the U.S./U.K. and China/USSR, the deciding factor being (yes, you guessed it) France.