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| THE FEARFUL MASTER |
FOREWORD
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FOREWORD
On April 24, 1955, the Communist Daily
Worker wrote:
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The United Nations has become an
imposing institution with a fantastic pyramid of agencies and
commissions, and an agenda each autumn of 75 questons. . . . There
it stands--in its striking home of stone and steel and glass on the
shores of the East River to which thousands of people come each
week, in pilgrimages of peace and hope. |
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This is one of those instances where the
truth is sufficiently horrible that the Communist propagandists do not have
to lie. In the two decades since the United Nations was created, it has
expanded into a giant international bureaucracy with tentacles reaching into
every sphere of human activity from matrimony to garbage collecting.
Americans by the millions have indeed made the emotional pilgrimage and
genuflected before the UN "shrine of peace." But, having looked at
the United Natttions, most of us have not seen. We have seen the building,
and the flag, and pictures of meetings where delegates listen to each other
over earphones; but we have not seen the real United Nations--its
purpose, its philosophy, its ultimate goals. To recognize these things, we
will have to look much deeper than the glittering phrases about peace and
brotherhood or the ringing manifestos on human rights and let the facts
speak for themselves.
Wherever possible, quotations used in this
book are from original sources. These sources have been thoroughly footnoted
in hopes that the skeptic will check them out. Some may feel that there are
too many quotes and footnotes. But this book was not meant to be one of
those easy-to-read jobs that can be glanced through with one eye on the TV
set. It is a documentary and should be approached as such.
Most of the documentation is taken from those
people or sources friendly to the United Nations. For instance, the
opening sequence is a direct quote from Smith Hempstone, African
correspondent for the Chicago News. Hempstone's views, in his own
words, are as follows:
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I do not belong to the African
Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters, I am not a member of
the John Birch Society, am not in the pay of the Katanga Government
or Union Miniere, and really could not care less about the
fluoridation of water. I am a registered Republican, although I did
not vote Republican in the 1960 presidential election. I do believe
that the United Nations has a role to play in the world today--and I
believe that the U.S. should remain in the international
organization. |
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Likewise, the forty-six civilian doctors of
Elisabethville, who provided some of the most horrifying eyewitness accounts
of United Nations atrocities, have declared: ". . . we believe in UNO
[the United Nations]. . . . We proclaim that such an organization is
necessary for maintaining peace in the world and fair betterment of the
underdeveloped natons."
While on the subject of Katanga, it should be
made clear that the section of this book dealing with the Congo is not meant
to be a glorification of Katanga and Tshombe; it is meant to spotlight the
United Nations action in Katanga. We are not being asked to pay homage to
Katanga nor are we being asked to transfer our political sovereignty, our
economy, and our military security to Katanga; we are being asked to
do these things for the United Nations. It is for this reason that we need
to take a close and searching look at this mammoth organization. And, just
as one picture is worth a thousand words, one case history is worth a
thousand theoretical arguments.
This is by no means an exhaustive treatment
of the subject. If the reader wants a detailed explanation of the structure
of the United Nations, how the organization functions mechanically, or what
relation one subdivision has with another, he can find countless volumes in
a public library. All of this is academic in the minds of most people,
anyway. The citizens of Katanga who were dying under United Naations bombs
were not concerned over whether the air attacks had been authorized by the
Security Council, the General Assembly or the Military Staff Committee, or
whether it took a two-thirds vote or only a majority vote.
Nor has the tremendous financial burden that
membership in the United Naions places on the shoulders of American
taxpayers been discussed. After all, mere money is relatively unimportant.
If the UN really were what most people think it is, it would be well
worth the investment. The real cost of our membership will not, in the end,
be measured in terms of dollars and cents; it will be counted out in terms
of lost freedoms, despair and human suffering.
This is not an attempt to present an
"objective" view of the United Nations. If the reader wants to
acquaint himself with the other side he need only turn on his radio or TV,
or glance through the pages of his favorite newspaper or magazine. The other
side has been presented almost without challenge by every conceivable
means--books, movies, plays, speeches, editorials, pamphlets, posters, and
poetry. It has been promoted by politicians, athletes, movie stars,
teachers, beauty queens, and businessmen. By comparison, the case against
the United Nations has been relegated almost entirely to the media of
mimeographed news letters and hastily compiled fact sheets put out by
housewives and neighborhood study groups. Radio and TV time is usually
denied on the basis that such a point of view is "controversial."
It is as though history had slipped back 450 years. When Galileo attempted
to demonstrate the theory that the earth was not the center of the universe,
he was imprisoned and condemned as follows:
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We say, pronounce, sentence and
declare that you, the said Galileo, by reason of the matters adduced
in this trial, and by you confessed as above, have rendered
yourself, in the judgment of this holy office, vehemently suspected
of heresy, namely of having believed and held the doctrine--which is
false and contrary to the sacred and divine scriptures--that the sun
is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and
that the earth moves and is not the center of the world. . . .
Consequently, you have incurred all the censures and penalties
imposed and promulgated in the sacreds canons and other
constitutions, general and particular, against such delinquents. |
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Now, as then, history will be the judge.
G. Edward Griffin
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