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- Whose Side Are They On?
- by John F. McManus
-
- In the interest of peace, many Americans have been persuaded to
- support disarmament programs and to create as a substitute for each
- nation's military a United Nations Peace Force. Most feel certain
- that their own rights and the independence of their nation would in
- no way be placed in jeopardy. But there is a vital question few
- seem willing or able to ask: Who would be left to restrain the
- all-powerful United Nations?
-
- For his Secretaries of State and Defense, President John F.
- Kennedy selected Dean Rusk and Robert S. McNamara. Each was a
- member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, a
- private organization formed in 1921 for the purpose of bringing
- about a one-world government.
-
- Only nine months into his administration - on September 25. 1961,
- to be precise - Mr. Kennedy travelled to UN headquarters in New
- York to present a proposal entitled Freedom From War: The United
- States Program For General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful
- World. The work of the Rusk-led State Department, with the willing
- acquiescence of the McNamara-led Defense Department, the proposal
- was published as "Department of State Publication 7277."
-
- In his remarks before the UN, President Kennedy asked for a
- commitment from all nations "not to an arms race, but to a peace
- race - to advance together step by step, stage by stage, until
- general and complete disarmament has been achieved." He did not
- get any such commitment, yet the United States embarked on the
- Kennedy-launched program.
-
- Freedom From War (or "7277" as it was frequently called) proposes
- three stages of disarmament ending with the transfer of the armed
- forces of our nation to the United Nations. As Senator Joseph
- Clark of Pennsylvania approvingly reminded his colleagues in a
- Senate speech on March 1, 1962, this program is "the fixed,
- determined and approved policy of the government of the United
- States."
-
- A reading of the document itself confirms that disarmament "would
- proceed to a point where no state would have the military power
- to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force...."
- In other words, the only significant military power left in the
- world would be the United Nations.
-
- The provisions of the treacherous proposal would actually leave our
- nation defenseless before the UN, and before any other nation that
- didn't similarly disarm. And it would place the UN's superior
- military power in the hands of the UN's Undersecretary for
- Political and Security Council Affairs, the overseer of all UN
- military activity. This post, by virtue of a secret agreement
- concluded at the founding of the UN (an arrangement later confirmed
- by an astonished former UN Secretary General named Trygve Lie), has
- always been held by a communist. The man who holds it today, the
- 14th communist in succession, is Vasiliy S. Safronchuk of the
- Soviet Union. Unless our leaders are stopped, they will succeed in
- turning over our military forces to the United Nations where they
- will be controlled by a communist.
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Since the UN was created, there have been 14 Undersecrtaries |
- | for Political and Security Council Affairs. All have been |
- | communists, and all but one have come from the Soviet Union: |
- | |
- | 1946-1949 Arkady Sobolev (USSR) |
- | 1949-1953 Konstantin Zinchenko (USSR) |
- | 1953-1954 Ilya Tchernychev (USSR) |
- | 1954-1957 Dragoslav Protitch (Yugoslavia) |
- | 1958-1960 Anatoly Dobrynin (USSR) |
- | 1960-1962 Georgy Arkadev (USSR) |
- | 1962-1963 E. D. Kiselev (USSR) |
- | 1963-1965 V. P. Suslov (USSR) |
- | 1965-1968 Alcxei E. Nesterenko (USSR) |
- | 1968-1973 Leonid N. Kutakov (USSR) |
- | 1973-1978 Arkady N. Shevchenko (USSR) |
- | 1978-1981 Mikhail D. Sytenko (USSR) |
- | 1981-1986 Viacheslav A. Ustinov (USSR) |
- | 1987- Vasiliy S. Safronchuk (USSR) |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-
- Subverting Our Sovereignty
-
- Are our leaders really implementing this plan? Yes, they are! The
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is part of it; the treaty banning the use
- of outer space for nuclear weapons is part of it; the Nuclear
- Non-Proliferation Treaty is part of it; and so is the Intermediate
- Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, signed by President Reagan and Soviet
- leader Gorbachev and formally ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1988.
-
- When Freedom From War was first made public, many startled
- Americans tried to obtain a copy. It was quickly declared "out of
- print' by federal authorities. Then, it was superseded in April
- 1962 by a "more precise" statement of the U.S. disarmament policy
- in a document entitled Blueprint For the Peace Race: Outline of
- Basic Provisions of a treaty on General and Complete Disarmament in
- a Peaceful World.
-
- Presented formally to an 18-nation UN Committee on Disarmament
- meeting in Geneva, the foreword to the Blueprint states that it
- doesn't cancel the plans given in Freedom From War. It merely
- "elaborates and extends the proposals of September 25," the date
- that Freedom From War was unveiled at UN headquarters by President
- Kennedy. In complete accord with Freedom From War, the Blueprint
- spells out its overall goal in the third of its three stages: "The
- Parties to the Treaty would progressively strengthen the United
- Nations Peace Force established in Stage II until it had sufficient
- armed forces and armaments so that no state could challenge it."
-
- When questioned about the commitment of the United States to the
- Blueprint, A. Richard Richstein, General Council of the U.S. Arms
- Control and Disarmament Agency, stated in a May 11, 1982 letter
- that "the United States has never formally withdrawn this
- proposal." In January 1991, William Nary, the official historian of
- the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, confirmed again that "the
- proposal has not been withdrawn." Mr. Nary also confirmed that
- "certain features of it have been incorporated into subsequent
- disarmament agreements."
-
- In summary, the plan to disarm the United States in favor of an
- all-powerful United Nations Peace Force is unfolding. It calls for
- relinquishing virtually all of our nation's military forces to a UN
- command whose leader, by agreement between the U.S. and the USSR
- during the founding sessions leading to the creation of the UN,
- will always be a communist. In the end, "no state could challenge"
- the communist-led military power of the United Nations.
-
- This supposed "disarmament" program, therefore, is not as much
- about weapons elimination as it is about weapons distribution and
- control. If the program succeeds, only the UN and those nations
- skirting UN weapons prohibitions will be armed. It is remarkably
- similar to the drive that would outlaw private ownership of
- firearms. If that drive should ever succeed, only the government
- and those who are outlaws would possess guns. Law-abiding citizens
- would be at their mercy in the latter case; law-abiding nations
- would be at the mercy of the UN and outlaw nations in the other.
-
-
- Background To This Situation
-
- How did we get into such a situation? Who are the individuals
- promoting such a suicidal proposal? Why is Congress going along
- instead of repudiating this dangerous program? How do we get out of
- it before it's too late?
-
- At the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the delegation from
- the United States included a young State Department official named
- Alger Hiss. Widely acclaimed for both his ability and his
- enthusiasm for the world organization, he rose to become the acting
- secretary general of the founding UN conference. As a member of the
- steering and executive committees of the conference, he played a
- major role in drafting the UN Charter. He also helped to staff the
- U.S. delegation and was chosen by his peers for the prestigious
- task of personally transporting the Charter to the President and to
- the Senate for ratification.
-
- Alger Hiss, however, was later found to have been a secret
- communist, more loyal to a foreign power than to the nation of his
- birth. A 1950 State Department document named 15 other key U.S.
- government officials who were responsible for planning the creation
- of the UN. They, too, were subsequently named as secret communists
- by official agencies.
-
-
- Not only was the U.S. represented by a sizeable number of
- communists, our nation's delegation also contained 43 individuals
- who were then or soon would be members of America's leading
- Establishment organization, the privately-run Council on Foreign
- Relations. Alger Hiss himself was both a communist and a CFR member
- as was another U.S. member of the UN planning team, Lauchlin
- Currie. As communists, and as CFR members, they worked diligently
- to bring the world government into existence, and they labored just
- as hard to have the United States a part of it.
-
- There were, of course, delegations from the USSR and the other
- founding nations. These were made up of communists, socialists,
- one-worlders, and easily manipulated starry-eyed dreamers. All were
- committed to world government at the expense of national
- sovereignty. All wanted the United Nations to be supreme. There
- was to be no more war as soon as the United Nations was given
- sufficient power, especially unchallenged military power, to keep
- the peace.
-
- For the past 45 years, intense pro-UN propaganda has convinced many
- Americans (and many others as well) that the words "peace" and
- "United Nations" are virtually interchangeable. Anyone who opposes
- the UN risks being labelled a warmonger. Those who support the UN
- customarily find themselves showered with accolades.
-
- Peace is so universally desired that almost anything seems
- reasonable to achieve it. Proposals to empower the UN with the
- world's dominant military capability have received widespread
- support. At first glance, the idea may seem to have some merit. A
- world police force formed to keep the peace. Wouldn't it be
- wonderful!
-
- Suppose, however, that the unchallengeable power of the United
- Nations fell into the wrong hands? Suppose it ended up at the
- disposal of Alger Hiss and his comrades? Couldn't it be used to
- impose a tyranny on the rest of mankind? Wouldn't any would-be
- tyrant gravitate to the organization?
-
- Even if the UN were not run by communists, socialists, and
- one-worlders who despise nationhood, wouldn't the awesome power we
- are talking about be sufficient to corrupt anyone? Who would be
- able to bridle any UN leaders who had been given greater power than
- anyone else on earth?
-
- +------------------------------------------------------------------+
- | Five years after the 1945 founding of the United Nations, |
- | official records released by the State Department* identified |
- | the individuals listed below as key U.S. contributors to the |
- | planning for the world organization. Each of the 16 was |
- | subsequently identified in sworn testimony before U.S. |
- | government agencies as a secret communist: |
- | |
- | Alger Hiss |
- | Harry Dexter White |
- | Virginius Frank Coe |
- | Noel Field |
- | Laurence Duggan |
- | Henry Julian Wadleigh |
- | John Carter Vincent |
- | David Weintraub |
- | |
- | Nathan Gregory Silvermaster |
- | Harold Glasser |
- | Victor Perlo |
- | Irving Kaplan |
- | Solomon Adler |
- | Abraham George Silverman |
- | William K.Ullman |
- | William H. Taylor |
- | |
- | * Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation, 1939-1945, |
- | U.S. State Department |
- +------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-
- Don't Discard Americanism
-
- It can't be said too often that America is unique. Our nation began
- with the thunderous assertion in the Declaration of Independence
- that "men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
- rights." According to the founding premise of this nation, rights
- come from God, not from government. And the Declaration then
- declared that governments are formed solely "to secure these
- rights." That's all! Secure God-given rights, not provide for
- wants, redistribute the wealth, or make dependent serfs out of the
- people.
-
- With the marvelous foundation laid in the Declaration, the men who
- formed this unique and wonderful nation then wrote a Constitution
- whose sole purpose was to govern the government, not the people.
- America was expected to be a nation where the government was
- limited by law and the people were limited by freely accepted moral
- codes such as those found in the Ten Commandments.
-
- Nothing like America had ever existed in all history. And did this
- nation prosper! Millions left the old world to come here penniless
- - not to be cared for but to enjoy freedom and opportunity. America
- became the hope of the world - even for those who were not
- fortunate enough to live within our borders.
-
- The United Nations, on the other hand, has no place for God. If
- rights don't come from God, the presumption is that they are
- granted by government. The UN actually fosters such a presumption,
- as can be discovered in its International Covenants on Human
- Rights. What must be understood is that a government that presumes
- to grant fundamental rights - which is what the UN does - is a
- government that can suspend them at will. If the "self-evident"
- truths in the Declaration of Independence are canceled or forgotten
- in favor of the UN's ways, all rights given us by our Creator will
- exist only at the pleasure of the United Nations.
-
- The reality here is that the UN turns the entire American system on
- its head. To consider submitting our nation to the dictates of the
- anti-American, pro-communist and Godless United Nations is
- suicidal. Yet, this is exactly what our leaders have been working
- towards for several decades. Sad to say, it is perfectly obvious
- that this is precisely what President Bush is talking about when he
- repeatedly expresses his desire to create a "new world order."
-
- Unfortunately, the desire for peace has clouded the vision of many
- otherwise clear-thinking Americans. Many have been persuaded to
- think only of the concept of "peace," but not what kind of peace.
- No one should ever forget that there is the peace of the grave, the
- peace of submission, and the communist peace that consists of no
- opposition to communism. Peace with justice, the goal of anyone
- possessing good will, is as likely under UN domination as is the
- chance that water will flow uphill.
-
- Whenever thoughts such as these are brought to the attention of
- sensible Americans, enthusiasm for UN-style peace diminishes.
- "Let's keep our independence!" is a common response. "Why should we
- trust others to look after our well-being?" is another. But too
- few are aware of the dangers inherent in an all-powerful world
- government. And too few, therefore, have been guarding against
- transferring U.S. military forces and U.S. sovereignty to the
- United Nations.
-
-
- The "New World Order"
-
- In an exclusive interview published in the December 31, 1990 /
- January 7, 1991 issue of U.S. News & World Report, President Bush
- called for "a reinvigorated United Nations" that he hoped would
- bring about the "new world order." What should be reinvigorated
- instead are the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the
- Constitution.
-
- During a January 9, 1991 press conference. Mr. Bush said that the
- crisis in the Middle East "has to do with a new world order [that]
- is only going to be enhanced if this newly activated peacekeeping
- function of the United Nations proves to be effective." Obviously,
- he considers our forces in the Middle East to have been under the
- UNs peacekeeping jurisdiction. And isn't it curious that this
- supposed "peace" organization's authority was used to start the
- Persian Gulf war?
-
- Then, in his January 19,1991 speech to the nation, the President
- again touted the "new world order," describing it as "an order in
- which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to
- fulfill the promise and vision of the UN's founders. " He didn't
- remind anyone that the UN s founders were communists. socialists,
- one-worlders, and starry-eyed dreamers who would happily tear down
- the unique foundations of the United States and replace them with
- the UN Charter.
-
-
- What To Do To Save America
-
- Answers to some of the questions we have already raised, and to
- others that anyone reading this pamphlet surely must have, begin
- with an understanding of the grip on America held by the Council on
- Foreign Relations. Mr. Bush, a member of the CFR s Board of
- Directors as recently as 1979, can point to more than 350 CFR
- members currently serving as U.S. Government officials. A similar
- CFR dominance prevailed during the Reagan years and in several
- previous administrations.
-
- Current U.S. officials holding membership in the CFR include
- Secretary of Defense Cheney, National Security Advisor Scowcroft,
- Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell, CIA Director Webster, and Deputy
- Secretary of State Eagleburger. Don't expect any to block further
- entanglement of the United States in the UN.
-
- There are also 16 U.S. senators and a like number of U.S.
- representatives who hold membership in this organization. Don't
- expect them to protect our nation from UN domination.
-
- Realize too, that practically every nationally important organ of
- the news media is led by a CFR member. Any senator or
- representative who wishes to receive favor from the media goes
- along with subverting America to internationalists goals. Any
- senator or representative who tries to keep our nation independent
- runs the risk of having the media make him seem like a lunatic.
-
- The great majority of the American people who value their freedom
- and their nation's independence have to become informed and alarmed
- about the path down which we are being taken. There will be no
- change without a rising tide of indignation. And there will be no
- rising tide of indignation until the frightening details about the
- ongoing subversion of this nation have been placed in the hands of
- a great many more Americans.
-
- Happily, there are reliable sources of information both about
- President George Bush's commitment to his "new world order" and
- about the Council on Foreign Relations itself. We highly recommend
- two books:
-
- 1. The Establishment's Man, by James J. Drummey. A tastefully
- written yet devastating expose of the political career of
- George Bush.
-
- 2. The Shadows of Power, by James Perloff. A history of the
- Council on Foreign Relations taken from its own papers and
- publications.
-
- The enemy is within the gates of our great land. Those who would
- deliver our nation to a UN-controlled "new world order" have
- achieved great power and influence. Whether they are stopped in
- time is up to individuals who will read a pamphlet like this one.
- books like those recommended above, and a great deal more
- information that is available to anyone. Once informed, an
- American worthy of the name will work with others to throw the
- rascals out of office, and, in the words of George Washington, "put
- none but Americans" in charge of guarding this nation.
-
-