G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

United Nations before an audience of approximately 1,200. In spite of efforts on the part of
the committee, none of the news reporting media gave the meeting advance publicity nor
did any of the local stations broadcast the speech. The next evening, however, Adlai
Stevenson made a UN Day speech in the same auditorium to an audience of about 1,700
people. This program was sponsored by the Dallas United Nations Association and the
Dallas League of Women Voters. Whereas the United States Day committee paid all of its
own bills, we can be sure that Mr. Stevenson traveled from New York and stayed in Dallas
at taxpayers expense. His visit was given an enormous amount of advance publicity by
local news media, and the CBS station in Dallas even donated a full hour of prime time
(preempting the Perry Mason show) to broadcast Stevenson's speech.
The bias of our mass news communication media and the resultant devastating effect that
this bias has had on American public opinion is, of course, a vast subject too large to be
adequately dealt with here. But one need only reflect for a moment on the following
episode to grasp the full significance of how far this process has gone. Mr. George Todt, a
well-known West Coast columnist and news commentator, tells this story:
On Sunday, September 5, 1954, I made some remarks about the United
Nations on my extemporaneous television program telecast from the
studios of the National Broadcasting Company in Hollywood, California.
They were not the usual mouthings one hears from the men in the
communications field nowadays. Instead of bowing and scraping before
the UN, I outlined some hard cold facts about this threat to the
sovereignty of the United States and suggested an alternative plan to
the UN for those Americans of honest intent who felt obliged to work for
international understanding in the future. My suggestion revolved about
the Constitution of the United States, however, not the UN Charter.
Although the public responded overwhelmingly in favor of the
suggestion I made in preference to the present UN plan, not so NBC.
The reaction of the latter was hasty and bitter. As soon as the officials
returned to their offices the following Tuesday morning, after the Labor
Day holiday, it was to notify me immediately that I was off the air.
Although never on the NBC payroll, they denied time to my sponsor of
57 weeks standing unless be broke my contract forthwith, and refused
to allow me to go on the air for two more weeks prior to cancellation as
my contract stipulated. This was done without a word of warning or prior
consultation. Everything had been fine up until the time I spoke against
the UN. Then I was suddenly persona non grata with the National
Broadcasting Company. 4
The process of squelching opposition to the United Nations is far from limited to just the
mass communications media. In 1955, for instance, Ron Ramsey, a sixteen-year-old high
school student in Compton, California, began writing letters to the editors of local
newspapers and magazines. His letters were well written, factual, and strongly critical of
the United Nations. As a result, he soon became the target of a vicious smear campaign
conducted by a Communist-front group calling itself an "anti-Nazi league." This group sent
out thousands of postcards calling Ramsey a "Hitlerite" and urging his neighbors and
fellow students to mobilize against him "before he acquires any more power." Joseph L.
Causey, a member of the board of trustees of the Compton Union High School district,
charged Ramsey with the unforgivable crime. In a letter to the editor of the Los Angeles
Times, Causey exclaimed: "This lad is opposed to the United Nations and preaches anti-
UNESCO propaganda." Ramsey was subsequently committed to a county institution as a