G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

On November 12, 1951, General Matthew Ridgway submitted to the United Nations a
report stating that about eight thousand UN military personnel had been killed by North
Korean forces--many of them defenseless prisoners of war. 24 It was revealed that most of
these had been American soldiers who were shot in the back of the head and dumped into
mass graves. Many were tortured until they died a merciful death. In some instances,
gasoline was poured upon the wounded men and then ignited by hand grenades. When
the United Nations General Assembly finally got around to passing a rather weak
resolution condemning such practices, it even avoided coming right out and saying that
the Communists had been guilty of any of them. Yet, in spite of the watered-down tone of
the resolution, sixteen countries either refused to support it or actually voted against it. 25
General Mark Clark reported there was solid evidence that after the fighting had stopped
in Korea and after the prisoner exchange had been completed, the Communists still held
944 American soldiers believed to be alive. 26 United States officials who sent these boys
into battle in the first place made no formal protest and took no action to obtain their
release; nor was anything said about the matter by the advocates of justice and human
rights at the United Nations. Finally, the Chinese Communists themselves brought the
issue to public attention by announcing that eleven American airmen captured in January
of 1953 bad been sentenced as spies. The Eisenhower Administration acted in its usual
manner and courageously submitted the fate of these American boys to the United
Nations. On December 10, 1954, the General Assembly passed a resolution against the
detention of the eleven Americans and called on the Secretary-General to intercede on
our behalf to see if he could persuade the Chinese Reds to live up to their treaty
agreements. Dag Hammarskjold traveled to Red China to plead for the release of
American military men being held illegally by a Government that Hammarskjold was doing
everything possible to have admitted to the United Nations. It was a perfunctory visit at
best. He did not even ask to see the captives or to survey the conditions under which they
were imprisoned. Needless to say, his mission was unsuccessful.
The following year the Red Chinese "magnanimously released the flyers as a propaganda
wedge to be used at the opening sessions of a series of discussions with the United
States in Geneva. Instead of pointing out that these flyers never should have been
detained in the first place or demanding the immediate release of the hundreds of other
Americans known to be still rotting in Red prison camps, United States officials hailed the
move as a gesture of good will and spoke glowingly of the future prospects of easing
world tensions.
What has happened to Americans? While Khrushchev boasts, "We spit in their faces, and
they call it dew," Adlai Stevenson says, "We must get used to it--we who suffer from
having had things our way for so long." 27 While Communists around the world shout at the
top of their lungs that they are the wave of the future, Walt Rostow, the special assistant to
former President Kennedy for national security affairs, proclaims: "The role of the United
States in determining, the outcome of the world's history over coming decades will, of
course, be marginal, and success cannot be assured." 28
What kind of insane urge for self-destruction prompted an American UNICEF official to
say: "By working through UNICEF, the U.S. removes the possibility of criticism for any
self-seeking ends. UNICEF itself is permitted to take the credit for the accomplishment." 29
Likewise, at the second general conference of UNESCO, an American delegate took the
floor and said: