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world federalist

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noun

  1. a promoter or supporter of world federalism.

  2. (initial capital letters) a member of a movement, active since 1947, proposing a world government on a federal basis, having powers of maintaining order and peace among the nations.

Etymology

Origin of world federalist

First recorded in 1950–55

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After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council.

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