G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Commerce, the Farm Bureau, and the American Legion, to the AFL, the
CIO, and all other people's organizations. . . . This will be achieved if
this vital battle is fought out in an uncompromising manner so as to
reject all amendments and reservations, and if it is waged in behalf and
on terms of America's national interests, as well as those of the
common needs and the unity of action of all of the United Nations. 15
That this campaign was overwhelmingly successful hardly needs mentioning. The
opposition was, indeed, rendered so impotent that it was unable to gather any significant
support in the Senate against the United Nations Charter. Americans, jubilant at the idea
of a peace organization which was in their national interest, unhesitatingly pledged their
unlimited cooperation and support.
By 1954, however, the United Nations began to lose some of its initial luster in American
circles. A rising tide of opposition was clearly on the horizon. Once again, the Communists
went into high gear, this time to throw up a wall of protection around their pet creation. For
instance, the July 1954 issue of the Communist Daily Worker, in an article headed "U.S.
Labor and the UN," said:
Both AFL and CIO have consistently given verbal support to the UN.
Their conventions unfailingly adopted resolutions to this effect since the
establishment of the world organization in 1945. Now the time has come
when it is more than ever necessary to match the words with deeds. For
the UN is in danger of going the way of the old League of Nations. 16
A few months later, the same newspaper offered its Communist readers several tips on
what arguments to use to overcome any criticism of the United Nations' dismal record. It
answered the critics this way:
So you see, its not the UN that merits your scorn and active opposition,
but the policies that have undermined the UN and turned it into the
opposite kind of an organization than was envisioned in San Francisco
and provided in the Charter. 17
A further indication of the Communists' interest in maintaining the United Nations can be
found in the Preamble to the constitution of the Communist party:
The Communist party of the United States . . . fights uncompromisingly
against . . . all forms of chauvinism. . . . It holds further that the true
national interest of our country and the cause of peace and progress
require . . . the strengthening of the United Nations as a universal
instrument of peace.
This, then, is the "baby carriage" that has been sold to the American people--sold, but not
yet delivered. When the day comes that the planners feel ready to assemble the parts on
our soil, our innocence and good intentions will be of small comfort.
The plan is both simple and brilliant. But have the Communists succeeded in conquering
one third of the world through stupidity? Did they do it with brute force? Was it luck? The
answers to these questions are obvious. One thing for which the Communists must be
given credit is that they are master strategists. They know full well that they could never
hope to conquer the world through military might alone. But through trickery and