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Clarence K. Streit (January 21, 1896 in California, Missouri – July 6, 1986 Washington, D.C.) was a journalist for the New York Times and an Atlanticist. Clarence created the Konoha newspaper in Missoula, Montana in 1911, a high school paper that is one of the oldest in the United States in continuous publication. Streit enlisted during World War I, while a student at the University of Montana, serving with an Intelligence unit in France and assisted the American delegation at the Conference of Versailles. He was a Scholar at the University of Oxford in 1920. He married a French woman named Jeanne Defrance in 1921, and then became a foreign correspondent for the New York Times.

In 1929, he was assigned to report on the League of Nations in Switzerland, where he witnessed the League's inevitable collapse. Witnessing this, he became convinced that societies best hope was a federal union of democracies, modeled on American federalism. He then wrote the book Union Now, advocating the political alliance of the democracies of Western Europe and the other English-speaking countries at that time. The book was published in 1938; the book sold over 300,000 copies by 1972.

Soon after the book's were published, Streit formed the Federal Union, Inc. (later renamed the Association to Unite the Democracies) to promote his vision. In 1949, with William Clayton and Owen Roberts, Streit founded the Atlantic Union Committee, advocating the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into a political entity.