G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

I may say for the delegates of the United States and for the National
Commission in the United States, of which Mr. [Milton] Eisenhower is
Chairman, that the constant effort of each individual is to discover and
to determine what is best for UNESCO. The question we ask ourselves
is never "What is best for the United States?" but "What is best for
UNESCO?" 30
In 1904 a naturalized American citizen by the name of Ion Perdicaris was taken as
hostage in Morocco by a lawless Arab brigand named Raisuli, and held for ransom. The
sultan, Abdal-Aziz IV, was apparently not too concerned over the incident. President
Theodore Roosevelt immediately sent a U.S. warship to Morocco and delivered a
message to the sultan that was both short and to the point. It read: "Perdicaris alive or
Raisuli dead!" Within a very short time Perdicaris was safely aboard the U.S. warship.
Fifty-four years later a similar situation arose. In Cuba a bearded bandit by the name of
Fidel Castro kidnapped not one but forty-five American citizens, including sailors and
marines from the nearby United States naval base at Guantanamo. In this case, however,
President Eisenhower sent no telegrams nor did he dispatch any warships to pick up our
captured citizens. The United States Government, in fact, did nothing, for under our
commitment to the United Nations Charter, such an act would have been illegal.
In 1904 we had not invented the nuclear bomb and we had not sent over 100 billion
dollars of foreign aid around the world. Nevertheless, at that time the American flag and
the citizens who gave it allegiance commanded and received respect and admiration
everywhere. Today, it is not unusual for Americans to receive instead the jeers and taunts
of the rest of the world. Our embassies have been burned, our officials have been spat
upon, and in the capitals of the world "Yankee, go home" is chanted in the streets. What
better proof could there be of the wisdom of General MacArthur's words: "There is no
substitute for victory."
NOTES
1. Eleanor Roosevelt, "The U.S. and the UN," ADA Guide to Politics--1954, P. 61.
2. Albert C. Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports (New York, Henry Holt & Company, Inc.,
1958), p. 475.
3. Military Situation in the Far East, hearings before the Senate committees on Armed
Services and Foreign Relations (1951), pt. 1, pp. 436, 545; and pt. 3, p. 1991. Also,
"Accept Chiang's Troop Offer, Knowland Urges," Los Angeles Examiner (July 11, 1950),
sec. 1, p. 4. At this time Senator Knowland was a member of the Senate Committee on
Armed Services.
4. Military Situation in the Far East, hearings before the Senate committees on Armed
Forces and Foreign Relations, final report (August 17, 1951), pt. 5, p. 3581.
5. Speech by Anthony T. Bouscaren before the Congress of Freedom, Veterans War
Memorial Auditorium (San Francisco, April 1955).
6. Ibid.