Part 17 (2/2)
The following is from a Federal Union, Inc., ad published in _The Was.h.i.+ngton Evening Star_, January 5, 1942, urging upon the people and Congress of America an immediate plunge into world government:
”....Resolved:
”That the President of the United States submit to Congress a program for forming a powerful union of free peoples to win the war, the peace, the future;
”That this program unite our people, on the broad lines of our Const.i.tution, with the people of Canada, the United Kingdom, Eire, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, together with such other free peoples, both in the Old World and the New as may be found ready and able to unite on this federal basis....
”We gain from the fact that all the Soviet republics are already united in one government, as are also all the Chinese-speaking people, once so divided. Surely, we and they must agree that union now of the democracies wherever possible is equally to the general advantage....
”Let us begin now a world United States....
”The surest way to shorten and to win this war is also the surest way to guarantee to ourselves, and our friends and foes, that this war will end in a union of the free. The surest way to do all this is for us to start that union now.”
World Fellows.h.i.+p, Inc., was also busy putting pressure on Congress in January, 1942. World Fellows.h.i.+p, Inc., is one of the oldest world government organizations. It was founded in 1918 as the ”League of Neighbors.”
In 1924, the League of Neighbors united with the Union of East and West (which had been founded in India). In 1933, this combined organization reorganized and changed its name to World Fellows.h.i.+p of Faiths. In late 1941, it changed its name again and incorporated--and has operated since that time as World Fellows.h.i.+p, Inc.
Dr. Willard Uphaus, a notorious communist-fronter, has been Executive Director of World Fellows.h.i.+p, Inc., since February, 1953. Here is a Joint Resolution which World Fellows.h.i.+p, Inc., urged Congress to adopt on or before January 30, 1942--as a _birthday present_ to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
”Now, therefore, be it
”Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress a.s.sembled, That the Congress of the United States of America does hereby solemnly declare that all peoples of the earth should now be united in a commonwealth of nations to be known as the United Nations of the World, and to that end it hereby gives to the President of the United States of America all the needed authority and powers of every kind and description, without limitations of any kind that are necessary in his sole and absolute discretion to set up and create the Federation of the World, a world peace government under the t.i.tle of the 'United Nations of the World,' including its const.i.tution and personnel and all other matters needed or appertaining thereto to the end that all nations of the world may by voluntary action become a part thereof under the same terms and conditions.
”There is hereby authorised to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 100 million dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended by the President in his sole and absolute discretion, to effectuate the purposes of this joint resolution, and in addition, the sum of 1 billion dollars for the immediate use of the United Nations of the World under its const.i.tution as set up and created by the President of the United States of America as provided in this joint resolution....”
Congress rejected the world-government resolutions urged upon it in 1942 by Federal Union, Inc., and by World Fellows.h.i.+p, Inc.
But the formation of the United Nations in 1945 was a tremendous step in the direction these two organizations were travelling. The ”world peace”
aspects of the United Nations were emphasized to enlist support of the American public. Few Americans noticed that the UN Charter really creates a worldwide social, cultural, economic, educational, and political alliance--and commits each member nation to a program of total socialism for itself and to the support of total socialism for all other nations.
The United Nations is, to be sure, a weaker alliance than world government advocates want; but the UN was the starting point and framework for world government.
The ma.s.sive UN propaganda during the first few years after the formation of the UN (1945) was so effective in brainwas.h.i.+ng the American people, that the United World Federalists, beginning with the State a.s.sembly of California, managed to get 27 state legislatures to pa.s.s resolutions demanding that Congress call a Const.i.tutional Convention for the purpose of amending our Const.i.tution in order to ”expedite and insure”
partic.i.p.ation of the United States in a world government. When the American people found out what was going on, all of these ”resolutions”
were repealed--most of them before the end of 1950.
But 1949 was a great year for American world government advocates.
On April 4, 1949, Dean Acheson's ”brainchild,” the North Atlantic Treaty, was ratified by the United States. President Truman signed the proclamation putting NATO in force on August 24, 1949. Most Americans were happy with this organization. It was supposedly a military alliance to protect the free world against communism. But few Americans bothered to read the brief, 14-article treaty. If they had, Article 2 would have sounded rather strange and out of place in a military alliance. Here is Article 2 of the NATO Treaty:
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