European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I r j americana Ian plan Newyork san Francisco propose Federal District j los Angeles r j.  the new country above with o closeup of the Federal District at left around Sioux Falls. S1ates and Canada by James c. Webster Dpi staff writer flip Politica merger of the United states Jand Canada is being promoted furiously by a 48-year-old Resi Dent of Madison  who says he is a conservative who despises tyranny care Noe 1 Barto has formed the americana Ian company to promote the merger suggesting Sioux,1 Falls for the = capital Lof his new democracy " Barto. Who has never sought political office says is Only logical for the two countries to join forces government officials of Spain and por Tugal Are openly talking of merging he said v in the common Market countries of Western Europe thousands of people Are working steadily for apolitical federation of their nation Sand even now Britain is negotiating for full membership in the european common. Market,3 Barto said that fit1 Britain joins the Market few Oxilon t it be logical for Canada and  to unite with the .a.?" and he asks would t it be logical for new zealand new Caledonia and the new hebrides to unite with Australia another part of his americana Ian plan would have the new country called the United states of Canada join and expanded nato which would be called the free world system a league like i reunited nations but would not include any communist despotic or Neutral  his suggestion for the . Of c. Would Odd the Bahamas to the slate of Florida and give each Canadian province status Ofa  capital naturally would have to be mid Continental and Barto proposes that it be enlarged and beautified like Brazil has done with Brasilia. Sioux Falls  one of a half dozen places Barto feels is Ai logical capital for the new federation. He has printed several thousand two color postcards with a map of the Federal District which would be bounded by Iowa Minnesota and southdakota., _ other Good Sites for a capital City of the enlarged nation would be rapid City . Madison wis Baraboo wis. Or the Appleton Neenah Menasha area of wisc on  he said. Hundreds of thousands of the postcards plotting the 3,000-Square-mile District Areto be sent out in the next few years he said lie admits these plans Are very in definite yet and it Muy be several year before anything could come of them. The americana ism capital would be a vertical rectangle with interstate High Way 29 dissecting it from North to Southand interstate 90 going East to West North boundaries would be just North of Madison and Flandreau and the South limits would extend to just South of Centerville. Iowa and Minnesota state lines would form the Eastern Boundary arid the West limit would take in Canistota. Barto said there is a Strong ethnic Rea son for the Union most of the residents of both countries Are English speaking with families traced Back to Britain an Many of the non British Are of French ancestry. The merger of Scotland with England under the reign of Queen Anne and the Union in ims of Newfoundland with Canada Are seen by the promoter As precedents for a .-Canada  great majority of scots were once strongly opposed to Union with England and the great majority of newfound Landers were once very much opposed to joining Canada he pointed out. But in both cases the minority Peoples were gradually won Over to the cause of peaceful Union because u made sense and they came to realize that unification was to their advantage1962