McAllister, Gilbert (1906-64)

The Parliamentary Group for World Government was founded in 1945 by Henry Usborne MP. The Group sought to introduce the ideas of federalist thinkers into the practical business of national politics. To support the Group, principally by financing permanent secretarial help, the Parliamentary Association for World Government was formed in 1950 (in 1963 'Parliamentary' was dropped from the title). Further financial assistance was secured by the establishment of the One World Trust. The Parliamentary Group worked to advance the idea of federal administration in Britain by persuading official opinion within government circles and by influencing public opinion by propaganda.

In 1951 it organized the first London Conference on World Government, and from a resolution of this meeting sprang the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government (which received its constitution and first officers from the second London Conference on World Government in 1952 and in 1958 adopted a revised constitution and changed its title to 'World Parliament Association'). The World Association proposed to pursue the aims of the Parliamentary Group and to act as an agency for centralizing and coordinating the activities of various national federalist groups within Europe and beyond. It arranged a series of international conferences; it formulated and issued statements of policy on world government, disarmament, the revision of the United Nations charter and on related subjects; it published, with the help of the Parliamentary Association, a regular official journal, World . During the 1950s and early 1960s it was active in pursuing its own programme, in establishing an international membership, and in maintaining relations with other organizations of similar purpose.

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