Alger Hiss Day

Alger Hiss Day
a Reminder of U.N.s Anti-Americanism

Cliff Kincaid October 24, 2012

October 24 is

United Nations Day ^[1],
or as Barbara Marx Hubbard calls it, Global
Oneness Day ^[2].
It has also been labeled Alger Hiss Day, in recognition of the Soviet spy and
State Department official who played a major role in founding the world body.
Dont expect the major media to remind us of that fact.

One of the best
sources of information on the role of Alger Hiss in the U.N. is the important
new book,

Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason ^[3],
by Christina Shelton.

The Shelton book
notes, Following Yalta, preparation for the establishment of the United Nations
was Hisss primary mission. Hiss was appointed acting secretary-general of the
U.N. founding conference and was involved in staffing the U.N. by selecting
people for employment in the world body. About fifty showed up as permanent
employees and a couple of hundred in part-time assignments, Shelton says of
Hisss efforts.

One of Barack
Obamas fundraisers was Anthony Lake, a former Clinton official who had

publicly questioned ^[4]
whether Hiss was guilty of espionage-related charges. Obama appointed him
Executive Director of the United Nations Childrens Fund.

Obamas U.N.
Ambassador, Susan Rice, has been strongly criticized for lying about the nature
of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. She blamed the murders
of four Americans, including the Ambassador, on a spontaneous reaction to a film
attacking Islam, rather than an al-Qaeda terrorist affiliate which claimed
responsibility for the assault.

Almost as
controversial, the Obama State Department has

announced ^[5]
that observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),
an ad hoc organization under the United Nations Charter, have been invited to
monitor U.S. elections on November 6.

On the 2007
anniversary of the U.N., I

wrote ^[6]
about a State Department document on the founding of the world organization, The
United States and the Founding of the United Nations, August 1941 October 1945
^[7],
which ignored Alger Hisss role. I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request to find out why.

It took several
years for the State Department to release

the documents ^[8],
which I have now posted. The material consists of 215 pages of internal State
Department documents which explain how the role of communist spy and State
Department official Alger Hiss in founding the U.N. was covered up during the
60th anniversary of the world body. There is no smoking gun, in the sense of the
documents showing a controversy over some official working to get a mention of
Hisss name in the report and other bureaucrats objecting to it. Instead, the
documents include several drafts of the report, The United States and the
Founding of the United Nations, August 1941 October 1945, which examines
minor controversies over mostly trivial matters.

The material
constitutes an indictment of the State Departments failure to acknowledge, let
alone explain, how a communist assumed a major position of authority and power
in the State Department and then used that influence to create a world
organization that has been exploited for anti-American purposes ever since.

Ironically,
while the U.S. State Department ignored Hisss role, the U.N. itself published a

report ^[9]
about its founding that relied upon the observations of Hiss (without of course
noting his role as a Soviet agent).

Although Hisss
role in founding the U.N. is not mentioned by the major media when writing or
airing contemporary stories about the world body, the facts do sometimes get
noticed. When Hiss died in 1996, The New York Times

noted ^[10],
By the time the charge [of being a Soviet spy] surfaced in the late 1940s, Mr.
Hiss had accompanied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference,
played an important role in the founding of the United Nations and left the
Government to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.

There are
significant differences between the two major political parties about the
importance and significance of the U.N.

The Democratic
Party 2012 platform

declares ^[11]
that the United Nations has been a centerpiece of international order since the
mid-20th century and that American leadership was essential to forging the
architecture for international cooperation after World War II The Republican
Party 2012 platform

declares ^[12],
Since the end of World War II, the United States, through the founding of the
United Nations and NATO, has participated in a wide range of international
organizations which can, but sometimes do not, serve the cause of peace and
prosperity. While acting through them, our country must always reserve the right
to go its own way. There can be no substitute for principled American
leadership.

Mitt Romney has
recognized how Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, uses the U.N.
for its own purposes. In the final presidential debate, he called Russia a
geopolitical foe which continues to battle us in the U.N. time and time
again. He has urged the defunding of the U.N. Population Fund and wants to pull
out of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

On the other
hand, the Council on Foreign Relations, which once included Alger Hiss as a
member, has

noted ^[13]
that Obama is a frequent advocate for the organization.

The Organization
of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is one of the largest blocs of nations at the U.N.
It includes 56 Islamic states promoting Muslim solidarity in economic, social,
and political affairs. Russia is an OIC observer state.

The OIC has

called ^[14]
for critics of Islam to be silenced, on the grounds that such criticism
constitutes Islamophobia. Obama told the U.N. in September that The future
must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

Mitt Romney has

declared ^[15]
that the Obama administration has distanced itself from Israel and visibly
warmed to the Palestinian cause, an approach that has emboldened the
Palestinians, who are now convinced that they can do better at the U.N.and
better with Americathan they can at the bargaining table with Israel.

Romney added, I
have studied the writings and speeches of the jihadists. They argue for a
one-state solutionone all-dominating radical Islamist state, that is. Their
objective is not freedom, not prosperity, not a Palestinian state, but the
destruction of Israel. And negotiating and placating such jihadists will never,
ever yield peace in the Middle East.

On the other
hand, Romney seemed to be endorsing the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal
Court (ICC) when he said in the debate, Id make sure that [Iranian President]
Ahmadinejad is indicted under the Genocide Convention. Romney said his
statements about destroying the state of Israel amount to genocide incitation.

Article 25(3)(e)
of the so-called

Rome Statute ^[16],
which created the ICC, outlaws the incitement of genocide.

A Romney senior
adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, later said Romney was referring to the World Court,
the U.N.s International Court of Justice, a body that doesnt have the ability
to indict anybody. Another Romney adviser, John Bolton, who served as Ambassador
to the U.N. under President George W. Bush, has been a strong critic of the ICC
and announced the Bush policy that the United States did not intend to become a
party to the treaty.

As a result,
several media organizations have correctly noted that Romneys position on
cooperating with the United Nations has become a subject of much confusion.

Article printed
from Accuracy In Media:

http://www.aim.org

URL to article:

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/alger-hiss-day-a-reminder-of-u-n-s-anti-americanism/

URLs in this
post:

[1] United
Nations Day:

https://www.un.org/en/events/unday/

[2] Global
Oneness Day:

http://globalonenesssummit.com/feature/Barbara-Marx-Hubbard

[3] Alger Hiss:
Why He Chose Treason:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Alger-Hiss/Christina-Shelton/9781451655421

[4] publicly
questioned:

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/barack-obama-and-the-hiss-denier/

[5] announced:

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/osce/242783/feb2012/FEB_16-12_USElections.pdf

[6] wrote:

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/commemorating-alger-hiss-day/

[7] The United
States and the Founding of the United Nations, August 1941 October 1945:

http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/55407.htm

[8] the
documents:

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/House-Hiss-Built-FOIA-docs.pdf

[9] report:

http://acuns.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/The_Founding_of_the_United_Nations_-_International_Cooperation_as_an_Evolutionary_Process.pdf