G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, then you must tell them the crudest and
most stupid things.
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE FRIGHT PEDDLERS
On January 21, 1962, the Communist Worker ran an article entitled "Birchers Take
Warpath Against UN Peace Hopes." The following excerpts are taken from this article:
The John Birch Society has instructed its members to prepare a hate
campaign against the United Nations. In his secret "bulletin" for
members, Robert Welch, fuehrer of the Birchites, orders his followers to
place this anti-United Nations drive at the top of their 1962 political
agenda. Steps on how to do his bidding are detailed by Welch and are,
in fact, already being taken by ultra-rightists. . . . "The UN is a tool of the
Reds," says the Birch Bulletin. "The only real function of the United
Nations is to serve as an instrumentality of Communist global
conquest," is how Robert Welch puts it. And this theme of the ultras
runs through much of the Birch Society and similar extremist
propaganda of late. Its obvious aim is to undermine the faith of the
American people in the United Nations. . . . It was in the spring of last
year that the ultra hate campaign to destroy the United Nations actually
began. The origins of this insidious business can be traced to . . . a socalled
"United States Day Committee," the purpose of which was to
replace United Nations Day with "United States Day." . . . 1
Throughout the following year, more and more people began to wake up to the terrible
menace that our continued participation in the United Nations represented. As the volume
of mail to Washington demanding withdrawal from the United Nations began to reach
sizable proportions, those politicians who have long had no opposition to their
internationalist policies became irate and alarmed. Perhaps the most outspoken among
these was Senator Thomas Kuchel of California. In a much publicized speech before the
Senate, Kuchel lashed out at what he called a hate campaign against the United Nations
conducted by ultra-rightists, lunatics and extremists. Since many of his constituents had
cited cases of United Nations atrocities in the Congo, Senator Kuchel called them fright
peddlers.
Gus Hall, present head of the U.S. Communist party was delighted with Senator Kuchel's
speech. Writing in the Communist Worker of June 23, 1963, be said that the Republican
party was in danger of being taken over by what he called "fanatical ultra-right-wingers."
But he made a special point to single out Kuchel's speech as hopeful evidence that
"moderates" within the Republican ranks have not lost out altogether.
A few months later, CBS produced an hour-long TV documentary entitled Case History of
a Rumor. The hero of the program was none other than Senator Thomas Kuchel who was
presented as the all-American champion of restraint and common sense against all the
irresponsible fright peddlers who think that the United Nations poses any kind of a threat
to this country. The villain in the documentary was Congressman James Utt, also of
California. Congressman Utt has been outspoken in his criticism of the United Nations and