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Show 'r- - ( The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand January SOLUTION t did, indeed, list Hearings scheduled for September twenty-secon- d by the Foreign Relations 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 September twenty-firs- 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. s ", f r. Congressman Findley sponsors Atlantic Union in the House. c the Resolution was included in a batch of bills (such as one 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 Resolution posing a serious threat to our nation's indepen- -' dence, by our nations most prestigious legislative body, raises some serious questions about the legislative process. It also raises questions about the integrity of those who connived to non-controvers- ial 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 thus voted no by a margin of killing it. 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 House Rules Committee was changed by the November elections, with two Committee members (including the Chairman) who opposed the Resolution and being renot seeking placed by two Congressmen who favor sending the Resolution to the floor for a vote. Such a vote, if taken today , would likely be 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 Current propaganda distributed by the Atlantic Union lobby emphasizes that the Resolution passed the Senate without a single dissenting vote,1' Needless to say, it does not explain the strange procedure by which such 'unanimous" approval was achieved. Dear Editor: The Rockefeller file becomes ever more voluminous. It seems Portugal has fallen onto its pages. Observe: - Among the small group of European political writers who have written about the Council on Foreign Relations, it has often been said the C.F.R. is the international political party of the Rockefellers. Likewise, theC.I.A. has been described as the captive intelligence vehicle of the famous brothers. Foremost among those linking Nelson and David Rockefeller with the C.F.R. and C.l.A. activities abroad has been Pierre de Villemarest of Paris, who has recently released an interesting report on events leading to the fall of the Caetano Government in Portugal. In December of 1971 the Chase National Bank, which David Rockefeller runs as the finance arm of the family empire, was pressing Prime Minister Marcello Caetano to accept its assistance. Negotiations were at the time going on between Lisbon and Washington for the use of the Azores as a military post. Chase Manhattan offered to help Lisbon in the negotiations and bring in a massive flow of investments in American, dollars for the industrialization and modernization of Portugal. Furthermore, Chase Manhattan could see that the Caetano Government would be admitted into the Common Market and the Atlantic Community which is still in the planning stage. The price was high. Caetano sserted: do not believe that the American people are ready yet-tWe surrender their hard won constitutional rights and liberties to a majority vote of federated nations . ... In our view the proone giant posal represents step toward world government . . . Although not directly stated as a goal, also implied in a union of this nature would be new supranational court systems, possibly different citizenship standards, broader constitutional powers and other changes representative of higher central government structures. And Congressman John Rarick bluntly 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 States 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. During a 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 (D.-Louisia- had to promise rapid a and democratization decolonization program which would give Portuguese Africa independence within two years. The premier refused. He knew that the agreement he was asked to sign would bring anarchy. He also knew that the oil resources of Cabinda and Angola, which the Rockefellers were eyeing, would permit Portugal to join the oil exporting nations. Analysts of the Portuguese coup now feel that it was Caetanos refusal of the offer by Chase Manhattan that initiated his fall. One is reminded of the chilling words of Benjamin Disraeli: The is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the :v U.S. U 6-to- . f ; T ' : ! i 1 1 ; 1 ' 1 Independent Page 7 OUTLOOK 2 PROPERTY TAXES THE SCENES th i ' ROCKEFELLER-BEHI- ND ), (D.-Nort- - Continued front page there is little question that they consider Atlantic Union to be an important step in their long-rang- e program of merging the United States into a One World government. In a joint statement issued during last years consideration of the Atlantic Union Resolution, Congressmen H.R. Gross L.H. Fountain and Carolina), Roy A. Tayh lor all of the Carolina) House Foreign Affairs Committee -a(D.-Nor- i 1, 1976 The Utah READERS (R.-Iowa- ' Rcpraitntitivi John Rarick defends sovereignty. government refused to let anyone buy them. So the worker resorted to collecting the separate parts secretly from each department and assembling them at hme. When he had finally gathered all the parts, he and his wife put them together. To their astomshmenf, they discovered that their baby carriage was a machine-gun- . As 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 parts until they needed machine-gun- s. But 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 product is to be. They have planned the final assembly years ahead. They do not think they are making baby carriages. When it comes to the matter of World Government, the One World Insiders are constructing a machine-gun- . Yet when confronted with its separate parts, such as an Atlantic Ujtion Resolu- - scenes. Sincerely. . Dorothy Walden Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240 tion, even legislators with Conservative reputations (such as Senator Barry Goldwater) insist it is only a baby carriage. Such a refusal to face reality is exactly the sort of thing that has made the job of those fighting to maintain the sovereignty and independence of these United States so difficult. The Atlantic Union Resolution can be defeated, but a massive and vocal campaign by those who oppose it aimed directly at Congress must be mounted to get the job done. Now is. the time to let your Senators and Representatives know how you feel about the matter. "Beware The Atlantic Union Resolution" by Robert W. Lee first appeared in the January 31, 1973, issue of The Review Of The News (Belmont, Massachusetts 02178) and is reprinted by permission of the publisher. ' J Dear Editor: Weve been urged to send you the enclosed, xeroxed letter so that you can publish it in your newspaper if you feel it is timely. It would be great wouldn't it? if the day came SOON that your efforts at alerting apathetic people would be acknowledged. Your efforts are fantastic. Success to you. Mrs. Bertha Hansen Pocatello, Idaho 83201 P.S. In this County weve had some real hot meetings about exorbitant taxes of late but were probably in a box no way out unless we do something earlier. One man came to our Republican meeting and said his taxes raised 400. Dear Editor: Now that the tax notices for 1975 are in the hands of the people there is no doubt in my mind but what they represent a distinct shock to the people. As things are going in our country tax wise and from the expression from people throughout the United States it is beginning to sound like wre are headed fora tax payers revolt, and maybe this is what it is going to take to serve notice on the powers that be that theres a limit beyond which we cannot go. In the first place I think the principle of assessing taxes on personal and real property is wrong; instead of offering people an incentive for paying their taxes they are penalized when they make improvements to property by having to pay higher taxes. Furthermore if 1 read history and the holy scripture correctly there was a time when a persons home was an inheritance and could not be taken away from him through taxation, and its my candid opinion we ought to consider something like that again that is, a persons home up to a certain amount should be tax free and beyond that amount a tax could be placed, thus the widows and the homes of those with limited means would not be taken away from them. The fear of this happening these days is no small thing, ' Now 1 realize taxes are neces-wor83 7 Provde funds with which to . ' carry on the essentials of but functions, governmental perhaps we might have to forego some of the things people think they have to have for I believe a person should live within his means and likewise a City. County, State and last blit not least, the Federal Government. As I have watched the situation over the past years it like every seems time our Legislatures, State and Federal, meet they make it harder for people to live. Perhaps if they spent one session repealing a lot of the laws now presently on the books and insisted that some of the others be really enforced this too would help. Someone once said. The government which governs least governs best." Maybe well be fortunate in the coming elections of 1976 to get a President and a Congress and State Legislatures which will return to the state, coun- , ld Conlinurd un page 10 |