G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Note that the date of this estimate was 1952. Communist influence within the governments
of the world has greatly expanded during the intervening years.
Since the United Nations was first launched in 1945 the secretary-general has traditionally
been portrayed to the American people as the epitome of neutralism, the ideal non-
Communist (as distinguished from an anti-Communist)--the truly impartial man. If the
secretary-general had been portrayed as openly anti-American and pro-Communist, we
Americans would have withdrawn our support long ago. Knowing this, the strategists
decided from the very beginning to select men with obscure pasts; men who were not
actual party members but who were ideologically so compatible that they could be relied
upon to carry the ball for the party. A brief look at the record will illustrate the wisdom of
this strategy.
Trygve Lie: Politically, Trygve Lie, the first United Nations secretary-general, was a
dedicated socialist, a labor lawyer, and a high ranking member of the Social Democratic
Labor party in Norway-an offshoot of the early Communist International. 8 According to
Leon Trotsky, one of the founders of the worldwide Communist apparatus: "The
Norwegian Workers' party had the reputation of being a radical party. . . . In the past, it
belonged to the Third [Communist] International."
Trotsky further revealed that Trygve Lie was no stranger to the Communists in those early
days. Lie had visited Moscow in 1921 and, as Trotsky put it, had been identified with the
Comintern at that time.
When Trotsky--the archenemy and rival of Stalin--was exiled in Norway, Trygve Lie was
the minister of justice of that country. Acting in accordance with the wishes of Stalin, Lie
confronted Trotsky with an ultimatum of choosing between either ceasing all criticism of
the Communist regime in Moscow or going to jail. Trotsky continued to write exposes of
the ruthlessness of Stalin and his henchmen. Lie, consequently, had him thrown in prison
and later deported him to Mexico. 9
Commenting on the desirability of admitting Red China to the UN, Lie revealed an almost
unbelievable naivety about the nature of Communism when he wrote:
Once before, the world had seen a Communist state-- the USSR--
isolated by the West after a successful revolution. I had always believed
that this was a great mistake and that the West, instead, should have
sought every means to fuller intercourse with Russia in the 1920's. Such
a policy might well have influenced the development of the Soviet state
in a direction other than the one it took. 10
One of the first items on the agenda of the newly created United Nations was the election
of the president of the General Assembly. At first the United States delegation considered
nominating Lie for the position but later shifted its support to Henri Spaak, a Belgian
socialist. What happened next is described by Lie:
On the morning of the 10th-- the day on which the president of the
assembly was to be elected-- Feodore T. Gousev, the Soviet
ambassador in London, sought me out. His delegation, he said, had
been informed by the Americans of my withdrawal; nevertheless the
USSR, together with its Eastern European associates, wanted to
nominate me . . .. His delegation had conferred with the United States