"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address
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"It is hard to speak, as I did, with a mother whose husband was killed at home in her presence with bayonets by UN soldiers. She was in the hospital to help take care of
her six year old child, severely wounded by United Nations bayonets. A child's bayonet wounds are hardly due to having been suspected of being mercenary or combatant."
- Ernest van den Haag, The War in Katanga, 1962
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"The continued existence of the independent state of Katanga was recognized as a threat to the existence of the United Nations and therefore even those who, from the
standpoint of their personal political opinions, might have been favourably enough disposed to what Mr. Tshombe represented, were convinced of the necessity of strong
measures. . . . This was an example of the victory of an international loyalty over personal predilections. If neutral men are simply men who put the interests of the
United Nations first, then Hammarskjold and all around him at that table were nuetral men."
- Connor Cruise O'Brien, To Katanga and Back, 1962
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"Some African UN officers I interviewed surprised me by revealing they spoke Russian, had visited Russia, and were openly sympathetic to the Red cause. 'The UN opens
the doors to Communism' was a comment I heard all over the Congo."
- Philippa Schuyler, Who Killed the Congo?, 1962
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"His speech was softer than butter,
yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
yet they were drawn swords."
- Psalm 55:21
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"I watched the counterattack from inside the UN Red Cross hospital which had machine guns set up along the terrace. United Nations troops were firing from the hospital
in the shadow of a giant Red Cross flag. . . . I also saw UN troops fire on a Katangese ambulance as it tried to reach the twitching bodies of unarmed Katangese police
who were ripped to pieces by UN machine-gun bullets after the cease fire sounded."
- Ray Moloney, Newspaper article entered into the Congressional Record by Senator Thomas Dodd, September 16, 1961
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"Outside, I counted thirteen corpses still lying in the grass nearby, all Katanga police and all, inexplicably, shot in the back. UN troops yesterday again fired on a Katanga
army ambulance displaying Red Crosses, seriously wounding the African driver and two white nurses."
- Peter Younghusband, All Out War in Katanga, September 15, 1961, Newspaper article entered into the Congressional Record by Senator Thomas Dodd, September 16, 1961
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"What will be left of the American experiment whe we have been integrated with the political system of France, the economic system of Turkey, the social system of Italy?
I do not know - but SOMEONE knows..."
- Senator William E. Jenner, June 1956
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"1. Confuse, disorganize and destroy the forces of capitalism around the world.
2. Bring all nations together into a single world system of economy.
3. Force the advanced countries to pour prolonged financial aid into the underdeveloped countries.
4. Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to total world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalties to a vague regional
loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later, regionals can be brought all the way into a single world dictatorship of the proletariat."
- Joseph Stalin, Marxism and the National Question, 1942
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"1. Socialize the economies of all nations.
2. Bring about regional unions of various groupings of these socialized nations.
3. Amalgamate all of these regional groupings into a final world-wide union of socialist states."
- Communist International, plan for achieving world government, 1936
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"The American Communists worked energetically and tirelessly to lay the foundations for the United Nations, which we were sure would come into existence."
- Earl Brower, Victory and After
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"Victory means more than the military defeat of Nazi Germany. It means the collapse of anti-Soviet policies and programs as dominant tendencies within the capitalist
sector of the world. It means that the policy predominant during the interwar years of attempting to solve the world crisis at the expense of the Soviet Union is replaced by
the policy of attempting to solve the crisis through cooperation with the Soviet Union."
- "The World Assembly at San Fransisco," Political Affairs, April 1945
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"1. The veto will protect the USSR from the rest of the world.
2. The UN will frustrate an effective foreign policy of the major capitalist countries.
3. The UN will be an extremely helpful instrument in breaking up the colonial territories of non-Communist countries.
4. The UN will eventually bring about the amalgamation of all nations into a single Soviet system."
- Mohan Kumaramangalam, The United Nations, 1945
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"We recognize the UN as no authority over the Soviet Union, but the United Nations serves to deflect the capitalists and warmongers in the Western World."
- General Bondarenko, as quoted by Colonel Jan Bukar in testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, May 13, 1953, committee report entitled
Soviet Schedule for War - 1955, p. 15
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"We were all indoctrinated strongly with the Russian master plan to reach the working masses of the various countries of the Western World over the heads of their
governments. . . . The organization of the UN is considered as one of the most important platforms for Soviet propaganda in the world. I wish to underline the following
comment: Not only Russia, but its satellites attach a primary importance that the members of their bloc of satellite powers maintain their relations with the Western
World. It is emphasized at all times that, in the acts of real democracy, socialist democracy, they should seek a direct channel over the heads of their governments to
the great popular masses of the U.S. and other western countries. The UN organization offers a parlimentary platform to the Soviet politicians, and from this platform, they
may preach to the populations of the entire world and do their subversive propaganda."
- Dr. Marek Stanislaw Korowicz, former member of the UN delegation from Poland, September 24, 1953
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"Great popular support and enthusiasm for the United Nations policies should be built up, well organized and fully articulate. But it is also necessary to do more than that.
The opposition must be rendered so impotent that it will be unable to gather any significant support in the Senate against the United Nations Charter and the treaties which
will follow."
- "The World Assembly at San Fransisco," Political Affairs, April 1945
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We are ready to associate ourselves with the nations of the world, great and small, for conference, for counsel; to seek the expressed views of world opinion; to recommend a way to approximate disarmament and relieve the crushing burdens of military and naval establishments. We elect to participate in suggesting plans for mediation, conciliation, and arbitration, and would gladly join in that expressed conscience of progress, which seeks to clarify and write the laws of international relationship, and establish a world court for the disposition of such justiciable questions as nations are agreed to submit thereto. In expressing aspirations, in seeking practical plans, in translating humanity's new concept of righteousness and justice and its hatred of war into recommended action we are ready most heartily to unite, but every commitment must be made in the exercise of our national sovereignty. Since freedom impelled, and independence inspired, and nationality exalted, a world supergovernment is contrary to everything we cherish and can have no sanction by our Republic. This is not selfishness, it is sanctity. It is not aloofness, it is security. It is not suspicion of others, it is patriotic adherence to the things which made us what we are.
- President Warren G. Harding, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1921
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"The United Nations is not a reformitory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in
would make you good."
- John Foster Dulles, on the UN Charter, July 9, 1954
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"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed
the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a new order."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, February 20, 1957
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"In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered a serious international
misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the UN General Assembly, August 13, 1958
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"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. It's purpose is to destroy the United States."
- Congressman John E. Rankin
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"The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution."
- Vernon A. Walters, 1985
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, 1985
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"Every child is our child."
-- Motto of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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"To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification."
- Brock Chisolm, when director of UN World Health Organisation
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"Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be
important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake that much that is
now unthinkable may at least become thinkable."
- Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO president, calls for a radical eugenic policy in UNESCO, 1948
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"In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Oceanographer Jaques Cousteau Published in the Courier, a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 29(3)
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