Garry Davis

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Garry Davis , born the July 27th 1921 with Bar Harbor in the Maine (the United States), is a pacifist Militant which created in 1948 the Movement of the citizens of the World.

Biography

It was pilot with the US Air Force. During the Second world war, its plane was cut down and was found in Germany under the ruins. Upset by this vision of horror, he imagines the creation of a movement mondialist. In France, in May 1948, it breaks symbolically with its fatherland by tearing its American Passeport in front of the embassy. A few months later, it decides to install a tent in the gardens of the Trocadéro to Paris while being presented in the form of “a first citizen of the World”. The November 19th 1948, Davis stops a meeting of the Parliament of the the United Nations in order to ask for the creation of a world government. Following what it once more did the one of the media of the moment. In the tread, it created the Movement of the citizens of the world.

As of December 1948, many personalities and anonymities come to its meeting to follow these debates. Among most famous, one can quote Albert Einstein, André Gide, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, the Abbé Pierre… It was also rather close to the president French Vincent Auriol. Lastly, time passing, its movement not succeeding fell little by little into the collective lapse of memory. However one of its sons, Troy Davis, decided to take again the torch and is currently the president of the World Citizen Foundation .

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External bonds

  • Garry Davis, official site

  • Foundation of the Citizens of the World (World Citizen Foundation)
  • Forum on the World Democracy

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