G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Since the United Nations claims that one of its purposes is to put an end to aggression, it
is interesting to note the United Nations' definition of aggression. At the fifth session of the
General Assembly, in 1950, the International Law Commission inserted a paragraph into
the draft code of offenses against the peace and security of mankind which declared the
following as the UN definition of aggression: "The employment by the authorities of a state
of armed force against another state, for any purpose other than national or collective selfdefense
or in pursuance of a decision or recommendation by a competent organ of the
United Nations." 10 In other words, if it is a UN military action, such as in Katanga, it simply
cannot be considered aggression!
During the attempted Communist take-over of Greece in 1948, the Soviet satellites
bordering on the north abducted approximately 25,000 Greek children. The children were
never returned to their parents and they have since grown to adulthood, many of them not
even aware of their national oriain. 11 Yet a few years later, delegates from all over the
world traveled to Communist Poland for a UN seminar on the rights of the child and, with
the participation of representatives from Communist countries, they piously drafted the
declaration of the rights of the child. Adopted by the General Assembly in 1960, the
declaration provides that the child must be protected, not only from all forms of neglect,
cruelty and exploitation, but also from practices which may foster "religious or other forms
of discrimination." This would authorize the United Nations to dictate to parents
everywhere, including America, how they may raise their own children. After all, any
parent who inculcates in his child a reverence for a particular religion is discriminating
against all other religions. The only way to avoid religious discrimination in rearing children
is to teach them none at all.
And so it goes. The master planners and their unsuspecting helpers have been busy for
years concocting poisonous pills with candy coating and offering them to the American
public as the elixir for human suffering. They have covered every possible sphere of man's
activities. There is a genocide convention, a declaration of the rights of women, and even
proposals for legislation to protect the rights of animals! And lest anyone take these "great
principles" too seriously and make the fatal mistake of believing that they are any different
from the ones painted on the barn in Orwell's Animal Farm, let them examine the record.
The United Nations Charter says: "Membership in the United Nations is open to other
peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter, and in
the judgement of the organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations." Yet,
the greatest peace-destroying force the world has ever seen sits in its tribunals and
commands the unquestioning acceptance and respect of all other members.
The Preamble to the Charter states: "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined . .
. to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the applications arising from
treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained. . . ." But Russia
continues to violate every agreement she enters into. When, in violation of one such
treaty, she builds a wall through the center of Berlin, denies access to the western sector,
and murders in cold blood scores of civilians trying to escape over the wall, the United
Nations says nothing--nothing!
In 1952 the free trade union committee of the AFL brought to the attention of the UN the
fact that the Communists in Red China had committed between fourteen- and twentymillion
political murders. The United Nations listened but took no action. It was apparently
too busy drafting the code of offenses against the peace and security of man to be much
concerned with twenty million murders.