I never knew, when traveling to address a new chapter [of the United World Federalists], what manner of people I would be dealing with. In a wealthy Chicago suburb, the leaders would be prominent businessmen and their wives. In El Paso, the local chapter leader turned out to be the owner of a photography shop who had been a Trotskyist in his youth and claimed to be the man who had brought Trotsky across the Mexican border in a fake coffin to address the San Francisco dock strikers. I was particularly impressed by the energy and organizational competence of the many women volunteers and came to have a healthy respect for their role and influence in a community once they had convinced themselves that UFW offered some hope for a peaceful future.
Cord Meyer, Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA. (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 44-45.
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