20 juill. 1951 - "RHODES WARDS HAWK GLOBAL SCHEME IN U.S. Peddle Propaganda for 'One World'." Chicago Tribune 1951, Jul 20

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RHODES WARDS HAWK GLOBAL SCHEME IN U.S.
Peddle Propaganda for 'One World'
BY WILLIAM FULTON
[Chicago Tribune Press Service]

New York, July 19 - Rhodes scholars, returning from schooling and indoctrination at Oxford University, England, are the principal hawkers of globalist propaganda in the United States.

The American scholars obtain their education abroad through terms of the will left by the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder and South African despot. Rhodes aimed at the return of the United States to the British empire and a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons. He hoped his scholars would be instilled with "political bias" toward these ends, according to his intimate friends.

Active in Global Groups

Previous articles in this series have disclosed that many of the 1,185 living American Rhodes scholars have obtained key positions in the State Department, the United Nations, the Economic Cooperation Administration, the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, and other government agencies where they have worked toward the fulfillment of the schemes of their imperial patron.

Scholars outside the government are engaged assiduously in promoting public opinion and building up political pressure for modern-day variations of the Rhodes grandiose scheme. A survey of 10 globalist groups reveals the activities of Rhodes' posthumous protégés as follows:

Federal Union, Inc., Clarence Streit, former correspondent for the New York Times at the ill-fated League of Nations and author of Union Now, is president of this outfit. Federal Union says it is purely an "educational and research" organization, thereby escaping taxes. The objective is a world government of "matured democracies" federated along the lines of the United States Constitution.
Atlantic Union Committee, a tax-paying offshoot of the Federal Union.
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Scholars Beat Drums for 'One World'
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Union. This is the 'political action' group which sponsored the recent congressional resolution asking President Truman to invite the North Atlantic treaty countries to meet this year "with delegates of the United States in a federal convention to explore how far their peoples, and the peoples of such other democracies as the convention may invite to send delegates, can apply among them, within the framework of the U.N., the principles of free federal union."

Scholars on Council
Streit is a member of the A.U.C. board of governors. Other Rhodes scholars on the A.U.C. council include Frank Aydelotte, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton and since 1918 American secretary to the Rhodes trustees; William Yandell Elliott, professor of government at Harvard; and John W. Nason, president of Swarthmore College.

Foundation for World Government. Rhodes Scholar Stringfellow Barr is the president and another Rhodes savant, Scott Buchanan, is the secretary. Barr is the author of "Let's Join the Human Race," described as a study of world peace, and "The Pilgrimage of Western Man," which is subtitled "His Search for One World from 1500 to Armistice II."
The financial angel for the foundation is Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine of Chicago. She put up a million dollars in 1948, saying Henry Wallace, Progressive Party candidate for president, was "deeply interested" in the foundation and "his philosophy and that of the foundation are similar."

United World Federalists, Inc. Vernon Nash, a Rhodes scholar, is program vice president. Another scholar, G.C. Holt, editor of The Democrat, publication of the Democratic Party of Connecticut, is a member of the national executive council of the U.W.F. Still another Rhodes education ward, Robert Lee Humber, is on the national advisory board.
Humber promoted the first action by a legislative body toward world government by pushing through the North Carolina legislature in 1941 a resolution declaring "that all peoples of the earth should now be united in a commonwealth of nations." The U.W.F. has succeeded in getting other legislatures to adopt the doctrine, but several have repented and repealed the action.

When the Maine Senate voted to rescind its previous support of the world federalist movement, Cleveland Sleeper Jr., Republican State Senator, said the U.W.F. had been found to be "Non-American, communist in tone, and directly opposed to anything we call American." The charge of a communist taint arose when the federalists refused to entertain a program of building an organization that could function without the Soviet Union.

Gets Ford Funds
5. Public Administration Clearing House. Don K. Price Jr., a Rhodes scholar, is listed in the official directory of the scholars as associate director of the P.A.C.H. at the transportation building, Washington, D.C., and 1313 E. 60th St., Chicago.

The P.A.C.H. is a privately endowed group organized to "untangle snarls in international relations." Drawing a grant of $500,000 from the Ford Foundation, the clearing house recently established headquarters in New York because "this city has become the best spot in the world to operate in the realm of foreign affairs." Quite appropriately, the new offices are on the second floor of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, New York City. The foundation, formed in 1922 "in recognition of the national international services of Woodrow Wilson and to promote valuable service to public welfare, liberal thought, and peace through justice," turned over its memorial library to the U.N.
Harvard Man Heads Study
Clyde Eagleton, a Rhodes scholar, professor of international law, director of program of graduate studies in U.N. and world affairs, New York University, is a director of the foundation and also a member of its literary committee. Another Rhodes scholar, Prof. Elliott of Harvard, was placed in charge of a new study for promoting global thinking recently. This research project searches into:

"The problem of how the structure and practices of our government might be improved to permit the full and effective discharge of American responsibilities and obligations in interrelated domestic and international affairs and the stimulation of popular thinking along these lines."

Council on Foreign Relations. This is a highbrow group of globalists in New York. Whitney H. Shepardson, a Rhodes scholar, is a director.
Hiss on Roster
It might be pointed out that the council's membership roster includes: State Secretary Acheson, not a Rhodes scholar but a well-known Anglophile; Prof Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins, who was accused in the senate as one of the chief promulgators of the state department's pro-communist policy in China, and Alger Hiss. Hiss, adviser to the late President Roosevelt at the Yalta conference, is serving five years in a federal penitentiary for perjury in a case involving spying for the Russians.

By-laws for the council on foreign relations limit membership to 600 living within 50 miles of the New York city hall and 500 nonresident members outside this charmed area. The residents pay $125 a year. Nonresidents pay $50. There also are $25 memberships for professors, writers, and newspaper men.

British Provide Speakers
8. Foreign Policy Association. The F.P.A. is one of the most powerful propaganda organizations in the country. Through its interlocking groups, speakers are provided by the British information service and state department to disseminate the Roosevelt-Truman foreign policy in all parts of the United States. Prof. Eagleton is a director, and many of his scholar colleagues assist in the nation-wide network.

United Nations Association. According to Dr. Aydelotte, the Rhodes secretary in this country, the scholars have taken a "prominent part in the work" of this association.
Union for Democratic Action. This originally was a splinter group formed from the Progressive Citizens of America, the Henry Wallace organization, because the latter permitted Communists to remain within its ranks. The U.D.A. is a radical organization created with the avowed purpose of carrying on the ideals of the late President Roosevelt. That the U.D.A. decided to go global is shown by the fact that it has a European director in the person of one David C. Williams, an American Rhodes scholar, according to the official register.
Tells How Schemes Advance
Dr. Aydelotte, in his book, the American Rhodes Scholarships a Review of the First Forty Years, discussed the influence of Rhodes scholars and how the empire builder's dreams were being carried out.

"Rhodes' plan was as broad and as daring as the spirit of the university which he chose for its center," wrote Dr. Aydelotte. "He founded his scholarships in the faith that if men of the type he wanted were brought together in such a place they would think about these problems of international government, and discuss them, and in their after careers be a force toward bringing about some better plan of peace and order in the relations between the nations, and that this plan would have as its basis the Anglo-Saxon conceptions of justice and liberty and peace."

South Africans Suppressed
Dr. Aydelotte did not dwell on the point, but other historians have noted how Rhodes' idea of "justice and liberty and peace" was one of suppressing the various peoples of South Africa, where his diamond properties lay, and placing them under the British yoke.

"There should not be any 'organized political actions' by Rhodes scholars," according to Dr. Aydelotte.

He added, however, that although there was no statistical account of their joint effort in fostering Rhodes' ideas, the "sum total is important."

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