Emery Reves

Emery Reves (Hungarian: Révész Imre) (16 February 1904 – 4 October 1981) was a writer, publisher, literary agent and advocate of world federalism.

Reves was born in Bácsföldvár, Hungary, from Jewish parents, and educated in Berlin, Zurich and Paris.

In 1933, he founded a publishing company, the "Cooperation Publishing Service" known for its strong anti-Nazi stance. In 1937, he befriended Winston Churchill, becoming his literary agent. When Churchill was elected Prime Minister, Reves was sent to New York to help build up the British propaganda organisation in both North and South America. In 1940 he was naturalised as a British subject. After the war, he purchased the rights to publish Winston Churchill's war memoirs outside Britain, and likewise Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

He is also known for publishing the book I Paid Hitler (1941) wherein he said Fritz Thyssen was clearly, in his mind, "one of the men most responsible for the rise of Hitler and for the seeking of power by the National Socialists in Germany".

He was the author of The Anatomy of Peace, a 1945 book that helped popularize the cause of world federalism. Reves argued that world law was the only way to prevent war, and the fledgling United Nations Security Council would be inadequate to preserve peace because it was an instrument of power, rather than an instrument of law. His book was endorsed by Albert Einstein and numerous other prominent figures.

The cover of The Anatomy of Peace had an "Open Letter to the American People", signed by Owen J. Roberts, J.W. Fulbright, Claude Pepper, Elbert D. Thomas, and other dignitaries, which began:

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