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Show . The Paper That Dares To Tate A Stand Beware The Atlantic Continued From Page 4 In 1969, it came up again, and again failed. On September 30, 1971, Congressman Findley introduced House Joint Resolution 900, which called for an Atlantic Union convention. On March 16, 1972, it was approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the next day Senator McGee introduced a similar Resolution (Senate Joint Resolution 217) in the Senate. No further action was taken by either the House or Senate until September 19, 1972. With the attention of most legislators focused on the pending national election, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made a spur of the moment" decision to hold Hearings on Senate Joint Resolu-tip- n 217. The one-da- y Hearings were scheduled for September twenty-secon- d and consisted of testimony Nafeon Rockafallar cal lad for fadaral union of nations. from only three witnesses: Congressman Findley, Clarence Streit, and George S. Springsteen. (It was Mr. Springsteens assignment, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs to give the Nixon Administrations blessing to the measure.) No voices in opposition to the Resolution were heard, and only one brief (but excellent) letter expressing opposition appears in the Committees printed Report. The Committee received the letter after the Hearings were concluded, and when The Review Of The News contacted its author (a lady who lives in New Jersey) we were told a rather inter- Mr. Springsteen received advance invitations to testify. But no attempt was made to notify the lady in New Jersey who had so consistently and persistently expressed an interest in the Atlantic Union Resolution. It should be made dear that the Foreign Relations Committee was not legally obligated to notify her, nor any other spedfic individuals, regarding the scheduled Hearings although some of the Resolutions supporters were so notified. But the Committee did have an obligation to give general public notice of the Hearings. Usual- ly, this is accomplished through the Daily Digest section of each days Congressional Record, which lists Committee Hearings scheduled for the following day in both Houses of Congress. The Congressional Record for September twenty-firs- t did, indeed, list Hearings scheduled for September twenty-secon- d by the Foreign Rela- , i tions Committee. But the Atlantic Union Hearings were not on the list. Thus, even many Representatives and Senators were effectively prevented from knowing that such Hearings had been scheduled. It is a bit difficult, all things considered, to accept the excuse that the omission was simply a mistake. A more realistic explanation would seem to be that someone wished to keep controversy in the Hearings on this important issue at a minimum in order to increase the chances of slipping the Resolution through the Senate without debate or delay. One week after the stacked Hearings were concluded, the Committee quietly approved Senate Joint Resolution 217 by voice vote in Executive Session. On October fourth. Congrauman Findlay sponaoia Atlantic Union in tha Houm. the Resolution was included in a batch bills (such as one of designating as wilderness certain lands in the Lava Beds National Monument in California) and passed by unanimous consent in the Senate. This didnt mean that all one hundred Senators approved the measure, but simply that none of those present at the time objected to it. And we are reliably informed that there were only three Senators on the floor at the time! Surely, the passage in this manner of a controversial it, an associate of Clarence Streits just happened to contact the Committee to see how things stood. would have ( changed by the November elections, with two Committee members (including the Chairman) who opposed the Resolution not and being seeking two replaced by Congressmen who favor sending the Resolution to the floor for a vote. Such a vote, if taken todya, would likely by closer than in the Senate, but most observers believe the Resolution would nevertheless pass. As we have seen, the Insiders of the Establishment Left have advocated the concept of Atlantic Union consistently for over three decades. Such men do not waste their time on frivolities, and there is little question that they consider. Atlantic Union to bean important program of step in their long-ranthe United States into a mergin One World government. In a joint statement issued during last years consideration of the Atlantic Union Resolution, Congressmean H.R. Gross th L.H. Fountain th Carolina), and Roy A. Taylor all of the House Carolina) Foreign Affairs Committee asserted: We do not believe that the American people are ready yet to . surrender their hard won (D.-Nor- (D.-Nor- constitutional rights and liberties to a majority vote of federated nations. ... In our view the proposal represents one giant step toward world government. ...Although not directly stated as a goal, also implied in a union of this nature would be new supranational a), a During House Rules Committee was ge bluntly na) summarizes the situation this way: Those who advocate Atlantic Union would negate the freedoms won by Americans in the Revolution of 1776 by restoring the United Stats to the status of a European colony. In 1865, those who advocated seceding from the Union were called secessionists. Those who advocate Atlantic Union are the 20th Century secessionists. -S, (R.-low- - sentative of higher centra! government structures. And Congressman John Rarick process. It also raises questions about the integrity of those uho connived to pull it off. Following the Senates action, an attempt was made to bring the Atlantic Union Resolution to a vote in the House, but the Rules Committee voted no by a margin thus killing it. of This year, Atlantic Unionists expect to win, and their optimism, for the present, appears justified. If a vote were taken in the Senate today, it is likely that the Resolution would be approved. Equally serious is the fact that the Senate speech delivered on February 23, 1954, former Senator William Jenner of Indiana related the story of a worker in a German factory during the early days of the Hitler regime. His wife was expecting their first baby, and he wanted to buy one of the baby carriages he was helping to build. But for some reason the Nazi government refused to let anyone buy them. So the worker resorted to collecting the separate parts secretly from each department and assemblin them at home. When he had finally gathered all the parts, he and his wife put them together. To their astonishment, they discovered that their baby As carriage" wfas a machine-gu- n. Senator Jenner noted: The pattern . . . was divided into separate parts, each of them as innocent, safe and familiar looking as possible. The leaders did not intend to assemble the your Plentiful Pot Did you ever notice a story in a recent issue of the daily newspapers? It was the young man, I forget exactly where, that a few months ago had asked a judge to put him in jail so he could kick the drug habit. Now hes on record as asking the same judge to let him out of jail because drugs are easier to get and more plentiful inside the lockup than out. So SIIVER SILVER AT LOW PRICES, 30,000 ounces of 99.9 fine and polished silver in 5 jand 10 ounce bars at unheard of low prices. jAlso Constitutional Medallions, one oz. 99.9 fine. 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Now is the time to let parts until they needed machine-gunBut let's keep in mind that when the parts of a design are carefully cut to exact size to fit other parts with a perfect fit in final assembly, the parts must be made according to a blueprint drawn up in exact detail. This does not happen by chance. The men who make the blueprints know exactly what the final machine-gu- r . even legislators with broader constitutional powers and other, changes repre- legislative well-inform- For more than a decade, this lady had been following closely the Various Atlantic Union proposals before Congress. An expert on the Atlantic Union issue, she was anxious to testify against Senate Joint Resolution 2i7 when Hearings were held. She had made it a practice to call the Foreign Relations Committee regularly to determine the status of the legislation. She had, in fact, called the Committee on September eighteenth theday before the Hearings were scheduled -and had been told that no Hearings or other action on Senate Joint Resolution 217 were planned. On September nineteenth, as luck different citizenship standards, legislative body, raises some serious questions about the thus learning of the Hearings in time to arrange for Streit to testify. Needless to say, Congressman Findley and esting story. February! 5, 1973 court systems,' possibly Resolution posing a serious threat to our nation's independence, by our nation's most pres tigious Union Resolution Tht'lfTAH INDEPENDENT Page 5 such as ah Atlantic lnion Resolu-tio- Readers of the Utah Independent especially welcome t?pgTV7ym lETiftrfaymTqTflHi lUwaiHB1 HWii 5515 ; |