G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

failure to vote was automatically considered a veto. But, due to the "flexibility" of the
Charter and "dynamic usage," the practice now is that failure to vote does not constitute a
veto. At the time of the Korean invasion, this concept was right in the middle of being
"evolved' and it was no time to put it to the test. Consequently, at the primary insistence of
the U.S. a "unified command" was established under theoretical American control and a
"uniting for peace" resolution was introduced before the General Assembly, where it
passed with little difficulty. The resolution established the following profound changes in
UN procedure:
1. If, due to a veto, the Security Council fails to act in a case of military
crisis, the General Assembly can hold an emergency session to take up
the matter.
2. In such a case, the General Assembly can call on member nations to
make available their armed forces for whatever military action the
General Assembly may recommend. 18
Here, then, is one more thread. Loss of the veto is no small matter--as even Trygve Lie
was forced to admit: "The Assembly by adopting the Acheson [Uniting for Peace] Plan,
engineered a profound shift of emergency power from the veto-ridden Security Council to
the veto-less General Assembly--a shift the full potentialities of which have still to be
realized." 19 It means that at some future date Uncle Sam will awaken from his long
slumber only to find that be is completely at the mercy of a majority vote within a mob of
angry Lilliputians screaming for his head; and that the harmless world forum that he
thought he created has transformed itself into an all-powerful world government fully
capable of performing the execution.
In an apparently calm acceptance of this grim fate for our country, President Lyndon
Johnson, nonchalantly stated it this way: "In a world of 113 nations, 50 of which have had
new governments in the past three years, the United States must be prepared for
change." 20
NOTES
1. From a letter to Joseph C. Cabell, February 2, 1816, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
(Washington, D.C., Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1905), vol. 14, p. 421.
2. American Historical Documents, p. 152.
3. "The Bricker Amendment," speech by Robert H. Montgomery (Boston, June 13, 1955).
4. Reparations for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, International
Court of Justice opinion. As quoted by Abraham Feller, general legal counsel for the
United Nations, in his book United Nations and World Community (Boston, Little, Brown &
Company, 1952), p. 41.
5. As quoted by J. B. Matthews, American Opinion (May 1958), pp. 8-9.
6. As quoted by Ewell, p. 28.
7. Chicago Tribune (October 29, 1956), pp. 1, 20.