ABSTRACT
Federal Union was an organization formed in the autumn of 1938 in the midst of European crisis by three young men, Derek Rawnsley, Charles Kimber and Patrick Ransome. Rawnsley and Kimber were the originators of an effort to prevent war by a reform of the League of Nations. They wanted to promote the creation of a European-wide organization with sufficient power to control the nation-states. In their estimation, national sovereignty had got out of hand and it would only be through some wider form of union that peace would be assured in the world. They called their embryonic organization Pax Union but when Patrick Ransome joined he persuaded them to change the name to Federal Union.
