G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

FOREWORD
On April 24, 1955, the Communist Daily Worker wrote:
The United Nations has become an imposing institution with a fantastic
pyramid of agencies and commissions, and an agenda each autumn of
75 questions. . . . There it stands--in its striking home of stone and steel
and glass on the shores of the East River to which thousands of people
come each week, in pilgrimages of peace and hope.
This is one of those instances where the truth is sufficiently horrible that the Communist
propagandists do not have to lie. In the two decades since the United Nations was
created, it has expanded into a giant international bureaucracy with tentacles reaching into
every sphere of human activity from matrimony to garbage collecting. Americans by the
millions have indeed made the emotional pilgrimage and genuflected before the UN
"shrine of peace." But, having looked at the United Nations, most of us have not seen. We
have seen the building, and the flag, and pictures of meetings where delegates listen to
each other over earphones; but we have not seen the real United Nations--its purpose, its
philosophy, its ultimate goals. To recognize these things, we will have to look much
deeper than the glittering phrases about peace and brotherhood or the ringing manifestos
on human rights and let the facts speak for themselves.
Wherever possible, quotations used in this book are from original sources. These sources
have been thoroughly footnoted in hopes that the skeptic will check them out. Some may
feel that there are too many quotes and footnotes. But this book was not meant to be one
of those easy-to-read jobs that can be glanced through with one eye on the TV set. It is a
documentary and should be approached as such.
Most of the documentation is taken from those people or sources friendly to the United
Nations. For instance, the opening sequence is a direct quote from Smith Hempstone,
African correspondent for the Chicago News. Hempstone's views, in his own words, are
as follows:
I do not belong to the African Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom
Fighters, I am not a member of the John Birch Society, am not in the
pay of the Katanga Government or Union Miniere, and really could not
care less about the fluoridation of water. I am a registered Republican,
although I did not vote Republican in the 1960 presidential election. I do
believe that the United Nations has a role to play in the world today--and
I believe that the U.S. should remain in the international organization.
Likewise, the forty-six civilian doctors of Elisabethville, who provided some of the most
horrifying eyewitness accounts of United Nations atrocities, have declared: ". . . we believe
in UNO [the United Nations]. . . . We proclaim that such an organization is necessary for
maintaining peace in the world and fair betterment of the underdeveloped nations."
While on the subject of Katanga, it should be made clear that the section of this book
dealing with the Congo is not meant to be a glorification of Katanga and Tshombe; it is
meant to spotlight the United Nations action in Katanga. We are not being asked to pay
homage to Katanga nor are we being asked to transfer our political sovereignty, our
economy, and our military security to Katanga; we are being asked to do these things for