However, if we set aside the United Nations' Communist definition of peace, and simply use the word as most Americans think it should be used and expect it to be used, it becomes obvious that the United Nations is actually a war organization. One of the most astute international lawyers of our time, Ambassador J. Reuben Clark Jr., drafted an important cursory analysis of the United Nations Charter in August of 1945, at about the time the ink on the new Charter was drying. Ambassador Clark, who served as both Undersecretary of State and Ambassador to Mexico, and authored the authoritative Memorandum On The Monroe Doctrine, charged in his analysis of the Charter: There seems по reason to doubt that such real approval as the Charter has among the people is based upon the belief that if the Charter is put into effect, wars will end.... The Charter will not certainly end war. Some will ask why not? In the first place, there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war. ... The Charter is built to prepare for war, not to promote peace.... The Charter is a war document not a peace document.... 'Not only does the Charter September 9, 1970 Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting. Remember, this was August of 1945. In the light of the U.N. record since that time, can there be any doubt as to the accuracy of Ambassador Clark's analysis? President Herbert Hoover was another who came to recognize the truth about the U.N.'s alleged role as a promoter of "peace." In a speech delivered on August 10, 1962, President Hoover admitted: "I urged the ratification of the United Nations Charter by the Senate. But I stated at that time, "The American people should be under no illusions that the Charter assures lasting peace.' But now we must realize that the United Nations has failed to give us even a remote hope of lasting peace. Instead, it adds to the dangers of wars which now surround us.” This same general conclusion has been affirmed editorially by a number of the nation's newspapers which have stood firm against the barrage of proU.N. propaganda and pressure. One such paper, the highly respected Santa Ana Register, commented on March 2, 1964: "Most of those folks who say they like the United Nations proffer 11 their affections on the grounds that the U.N. is a 'peace-making' organization. Now, that simply isn't so. The whole purpose and, indeed, the method of the U.N. is to use armed might against any nation presumed to be an aggressor. Its function is to make war.... We object to it [the U.N.] because, though it professes peace, it is obviously a war-making agency. Even the U.N. has not been able to disguise this fact altogether, though, in its early days, it deceived a great many." And a practical illustration of how well the United Nations has "preserved peace" appeared in the Indianapolis News on April 29, 1963, where a report headlined, "There Is No Peace - 18 Years, 57 Wars," catalogued the escalation of wars since the year the U.N. was founded. Yes, even seven years ago there had already been fiftyseven of them. The United Nations was allegedly founded as a fire commission to extinguish the flames of war. Yet, from the very beginning, the world's most notorious pyromaniacs the Communists have had controlling influence over the commission. On July 9, 1970, President Nixon appointed a special forty-five member Commission for the observance of the U.N.'s twenty-fifth anniversary. According to Executive Order 11546, which established the Commission, one *As one source of excellent information, we suggest the United Nations Packet available (at one dollar) from American Opinion, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178. of its tasks will be "to convey to the American people a balanced and realistic understanding of the United Nations family of agencies...." This will not be accomplished, of course, because the Commission is heavily stacked with U.N. advocates, and its Chairman is former U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. (The Vice-Chairman is Frederick Ehrman, chairman of Lehman Brothers, the enormously wealthy banking partnership famous for its support of Leftist activities.) Americans who would like to gain a "balanced and realistic understanding" of the U.N. will have to look elsewhere.* The United Nations was purportedly formed to ensure peace and extend freedom in the world. Yet, since its inception, there has been continual warfare and over a billion people have been enslaved by the Communists. Obviously, from the standpoint of real peace and freedom, the United Nations has been a catastrophe. Yet, from the standpoint of the Communists, it has been a smashing success. It is tragic, but nevertheless true, that United States participation in the United Nations makes every American taxpayer, in effect, supporter of the largest Communist Front organization in the world. It is the task of informed Americans to tell the truth about the United Nations as widely as possible, in the hope that the day may soon come when the antiU.N. slogan "Get US out!" can be changed to "Keep US out!" Reprints of this copyrighted article are available at the following prices: One to 99 copies, ten for one dollar; 100-999 copies, eight cents each; 1,000 or more copies, seven cents each. Order from The Review Of The News, Belmont, Massachusetts 02178. a ELSMAN, YOUNG & O'ROURKE, Detroit, Mich., April 30, 1975. Re U.N. Charter review hearings. Senator JOHN SPARKMAN, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, DEAR SENATOR SPARKMAN: I would like to be considered to give testimony at the above hearings. I'm a private lawyer with a rather "establishment" background who is concerned that the U. S. is not exerting enough leadership in promoting a regulated world under law. Such void allows many of the observable world conflicts and tragedies we read about to go on-and-on, when, I believe, creative men can build a better structure. U. N. Charter Reform is the best means, it seems to me. In the course of my concern, I tried my hand at a proposed World Constitution which I enclose herein. It has had considerable circulation amongst lawyers around the world. My Martindale-Hubbell biographical sketch is enclosed for your information. Please let me know if and when you desire my testimony. Please respond to the Birmingham address underlined above. Best wishes in your important work, Very truly yours, [Enclosure is on file with the Committee.] JAMES L. ELSMAN. STATEMENT OF ROBERT Y. GROMET, M.D., CHAIRMAN, NORTH AMERICAN GROUP, WORLD FEDERAL AUTHORTY COMMITTEE We humans have less than 9 years left to us to create a new government to be placed over the governments of the individual nations. If we fail to do this, George Orwell's "1984" will arrive, and we will all become like ants or robots under the several "Big Brothers" who will be the totalitarian rulers of the few super-powers which will rule the whole earth. Everybody will be equal, but of course some will be more equal than others. Human liberty will be dead, private thoughts will be manipulated by drugs in the water supply, and intimate actions of individuals will be under covert surveillance. In today's world, traditional foreign policy, which is based on "power politics," can no longer be effective, because of many developments which have made such policy, strategy, and tactics, as dead as the extinct dodo. Some of these existing and expanding phenomena and situations are: 1. Intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying hydrogen bomb warheads, which can traverse 3 or 4 thousand miles in 15 minutes, and can wreak instantaneous destruction of people by the tens of millions, annihilate whole cities with their thousand-square-miles of suburban areas, and even of all plant and animal life on earth, through their delayed radiological effects. 2. Pollution of air, land and sea, not only as a result of the possible Armageddon just mentioned, but through cumulation of radioactive poisons consequent to testing of atomic and thermonuclear weapons by ever-increasing numbers of nations, ever third-rate in size. Also, ordinary types of pollution due to industrial waste-products are of course large dangers, with alarming growth-rates. 3. Overpopulation of the world in relation to supplies of available foods. Huge birth-rates contribute seriously to this peril. 4. Guerrilla, anarchist, and terrorist attacks arising in one country and invading another, as well as hi-jacking of airplanes, sending explosives to other countries through the postal services, fomenting revolutions and civil wars for ulterior purposes, and similar lawless activities. 5. Monopolistic control of natural resources such as oil, accompanied by financial and commercial pressures of such proportions on other nations, as in effect to be practically equivalent to "blackmail". 6. Hazards attendant on competitive exploitation of undersea oil and mineral wealth. 7. Numerous other international situations and problems, each laden with its own kind of threat to world peace, economic justice, financial stability, industrial development, health, liberty, individual human rights, and cultural protection and growth. Modern airplane transportation, and instantaneous world-wide distribution of news by television and radio, utilizing extra-terrestrial earth-satellites, have made people in even the remotest sections and countries of the "Third World,” ambitious to share in the wealth and conveniences of the industrialized countries, which seem fantastic in amount and character, when these peoples compare them with their own "have-not" status. There is a revolution of rising expectations growing throughout much of the world. The Chinese have an ancient saying, which goes something like this: "When the rich are too rich, there is a way; and when the poor are too poor, there is a way." Unless the "have" nations learn to assist these expectations, with more than token efforts, and at the same time cope with the hindrances standing in the way of appropriate development of the under-privileged nations, while continuing to guide the latter into equitable, peaceful and lawfully regulated channels, for which supra-national government of the world is necessary, calamities of horrible dimensions to all humanity will follow one upon the other, as recently predicted in Orwell's "1984." On the other hand, over a hundred years ago the poet Alfred, Lord Tennsyon, predicted in his poem, "Locksley Hall," "Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, And the battle-flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world." In the Bible over two thousand years ago the prophet Isaiah predicted in Chapter 2, verse 4, "And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more." These are concepts of a religious nature, as well as of practical necessity, if humankind is to survive. Practically all the religions of the world preach this same basic message. If we, the human community or extended family, fail to comply, we shall be doomed, if not to actual extinction, then to a life no better than that of the insects. The essential elements of a government placed above national governments, according to numerous qualified investigators, embrace the following: A Constitution or Charter, creating a government, not a Confederation, league, treaty organization, or falsely named "Union," but a dynamic authority or organism in being, functioning with adequate powers, duties, financing, taxing power, and support, to achieve the following purposes: Prevention of war, termination of military actions or naval blockades, disarmament, protecting victims of aggression, settling of international quarrels and disputes, fostering of human rights, economic and social justice, relieving disasters; cultural security industrialization, equitably regulating world trade and currency exchange, protecting the ecology, and doing things individual national governments cannot effectively achieve unilaterally. A Legislature, empowered by the Constitution or Charter to pass laws in specified domains which are binding on national governments, all corporations, and all individuals (who will be citizens of the new world super-nation created by this process). The members of the Legislature must represent constituencies or districts based on size of population, with variations accounting for levels of literacy and Civilization. The Legislature probably should consist of more than one chamber, with representation of national governments in one Chamber or House. The Legislature shall have power to override an Executive Dept. veto, if such be existing or created. Courts with compulsory jurisdiction. An Executive Dept. which shall enforce the laws, act to prevent or terminate aggressions, blockades, invasions or wars; and administer the Specialized Agencies such as those now present in the United Nations. To those who say such a democratically controlled federal type of world government has never existed, and never will exist, let us echo the words of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, "Why not?" In fact, our own country's history shows that federalism was put into practice here when the original weak Articles of Confederation were replaced by our present Constitution, in 1787. Carl Van Doren's book on this subject is entitled "The Great Rehearsal," indicating that the American Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 was a rehearsal for a future World Constitutional Convention. In this United States bicentennial year of 1975, it would be specially appropriate for the U.S. to initiate some type of action toward the world goal indicated by Van Doren's book and title. In all likelihood, it would not be necessary to have a completely new Constitution created, as comprehensive revision and amendment of the existing Charter of the United Nations can serve the same purpose. Several authoritative books on this subject, giving word-by-word complete texts of the Charter as now existing, and also as revised according to the authors' concepts, are in existence, as well as numerous texts of completely new Constitutions or Charters. The literature on this subject is voluminous, and documentations and bibliographies are in existence, going back to the 13th century and earlier. Although the UN Charter calls for a charter review conference every 10 years, this has never been done to date. However, recently for the first time the UN created an Ad Hoc Committee to meet in late July and August 1975, to consider suggestions for Charter Review. The U.S. Mission unfortunately voted against the motion, but it was carried by affirmative vote of 82 nations, mostly from the "Third World." There will also be held an unofficial Parallel United Nations Charter Hearing ("P.U.N.C.H.") as a result of a decision of the Seminar on World Government held in N.Y. City on April 12, under sponsorship of the monthly newspaper, World Peace News. This "Punch" will have sponsorship of many organizations concerned with these problems, and will convene directly following the World Citizens Assembly, which meets in San Francisco July 20 to 25. At that Assembly, our organization, North American Group of W.F.A.C. (World Federal Authority Committee) will conduct workshops on composition of proposed World Constitutions. WRAC is an international body whose chairman is Dr. Max Habicht of Switzerland, and whose Secretary-General is Attorney Aake Anker-Ording, with an office in Oslo, Norway. These gentlemen, as well as the members of the Executive Committee, from nations on various continents on the earth, have been engaged in these endeavors for many decades. The purpose is to create an International Institute for Documentation and Research on a Democratically-Controlled World Federal Authority, in cooperation with national governments and with the support of individuals and foundations in all countries. WFAC has already received grants of money from the governments of Norway, Denmark and West Germany. Because of the length of the official name of the proposed Institute, the undersigned has created an acronym for it, namely, "Indarwa" (Institute Documentation and Research World Authority). In conclusion, we respectfully request that the Committee on Foreign Relations consider the following suggestions for appropriate recommendations to the Senate: 1. That the U.S. Mission to the UN be instructed through appropriate channels to participate fully in the forthcoming deliberations of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Charter Review, to be held this summer. 2. That a U.S. government agency or official be designated to assist in the organization and convening of "Punch," the unofficial Parallel U.N. Charter Hearing. 3. That the U.S. grant some form of recognition, and modest financial support, to WFAC, as several other nations have done. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, BOARD OF CHURCH AND SOCIETY U.S. Senate, Dirksen Senate Office Building, DEAR MS. HANSEN: Enclosed are several items showing the support of the United Methodist Church for the United Nations: 1. Official statements of the United Methodist Church concerning the United Nations. These are the operative paragraphs from policy statements approved by the General Conference, the governing body of the United Methodist Church. |