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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand October 19, 1978 The Utah Independent Page 7 Profe aloud group? Simply that members of the CFR have been in control of U.S. policy both foreign and domestic for three over decades, due to their inordinate influence in government, education, the news media, the military, the tax-frfoundations, etc. And it is this decisive CFR inwhich fluence explains, in large part, why we continue down the road toward socialism at home and surrender abroad regardless of which Party holds the reigns of power in Washington. (For additional discussion of this important point, see the article by Robert W. Lee which appears elsewhere in this issue.) It is worth noting the secretive nature of the outfit which has helped Professor Firmage achieve his present status, and to which he has belonged for almost seven years. At the time Firmage first paid his CFR dues, the official of the organization included this stringent provision: secrets of the current CongresOne of the best-kesional campaign in Utah is the membership of Professor and enormously Edwin Brown Firmage in the semi-secrRelations influential Council of Foreign (CFR). District is Second the who Congresseeking Firmage, sional seat as a Democrat, was formally elected to membership of the elitist CFR (whose Board Charimanis David Rockefeller) on November 15, 1971. But his association with the organization (whose small membership roster has never reached as many as two thousand inhis formal membership. On April 18, dividuals) 1970 for example, the Church News supplement to Salt Lake Citys Deseret News announced: pt et pre-dat- es Dr. Edwin Brown Firmage, law professor the at University of Utah College of Law, was named as International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. The first Utahn to be so honored. Dr. Firmage will attend the next session of the General Assembly of the United Nations and will conduct research on the techniques of peaceful settlement of disputes. The following year he will travel to Geneva, Switzerland, for the 25 Nation Disarmament Committee negotiations. . . ee by-la- It is an express condition ofmembership in the Council, to which condition every member accedes by virtue of his membership, that unless expressly stated by an Officer of the Council to the contrary, all proceedings at the Councils afternoon and dinner meetings as well as study and discussion groups are confidential; and any . disclosure or publication At times during the present campaign, Firmage has boasted of his international experience, but, so far as we know, he has never pointed out that it was the notorious CFR which paid his way and made it all possible. Professor Firmage was a law professor at the: University of Missouri in 1964 when he took a leave of absence to join the staff of Vice President Hubert Hunv, CFR member) as a phrey (who was himself a long-tim- e White House Fellow. It was in that capacity that Firmage represented the Vies President in working with Martin Luther King, Jr. and. others in planning a White House Conference on Civil Rights and instigating the federal civil rights legislation which subsequently expanded the , power of government over the lives of all Americans. In 1968, Firmage served as western states campaign manager for the Humphrey for President effort. In a eulogy which followed Humphreys death earlier this year, Firmage reminisced: I treasure the evenings he spent in our home ' with my children when he visited our city. I treasure the hours we spent working through the night together drafting speeches in campaigns from the middle sixties through his Salt Lake speech in the presidential campaign of 1968 to the present. (Congressional Record, March 10, 1978, p. S3485.) Observe. Today Firmage is campaigning as a "fiscal Conservative, wheras just a few. years ago he was writing speeches for one of Americas, most g, aggressive socialists. It would be difficult to find a inflation-producin- g government program or regulatory agency which did not receive the enthusiastic endorsement and support of Hubert Humphrey during his terms as Senator and Vice President. Yet, Professor Firmage asserted in his eulogy of Humphrey that he believed the late Minnesota Leftist had done more by humane legislation than most presidents. -- Humane legislation? It was legislation supported by Humphrey (and Firmage) which gave us rocketing inflation, burgeoning taxation, and oppressive regulation.' Yet, Firmage is telling voters that he is a fiscal Conservative! It is the years most flagrant example of misleading political rhetoric. Let us return, however, to the CFR. What is the significance of Firmagcs close association with the self-describ- contrary to the best interests of the Council and may be regarded by the Board ofDirectors in its sole discretion as ground for termination or suspension ofmembership pursuant to Article I of the s. (Annual Report: July 1, 1971 -August 31, 1972, Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., p. 72.) ' By-Law- i What is it thatEd Firmages CFR wants to hide from American the people? books about the CFR have been excellent Many written by outside critics over the past two decades. Among the best are The Invisible Government by former FBI agent Dan Smoot (Boston: Western Islands, 1965 1962); The Naked Capitalist by former FBI agent, and one-tim- e Salt Lake Gty Police Chief, W. Geon Skousen (Salt Lake Gty: Privately published by Mr. Skousen, 1970); and The Actor by Alan Stang, the noted investigative reporter whose radio commentary is heard each week night over Salt Lake radio station KSL But it is not necessary to go beyond the borders of the CFR to glean information about its inner workings. One prominent CFR member. Admiral Chester Ward (former Judge Advocate of the Navy) has partially blown the whistle on the organization to which he belongs in the book Kissinger On The Couch (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington with Phyllis Schlafly. House, 1971) which he At one point, for instance, the authors write: ...the vast influence attributed to CFR is not exercised through or by the Council on an . organization of individual members. "...CFR, as such, does not write the platforms of both political parties or select their respective presidential candidates, or control U.S. defense and foreign policies. But CFR members, as individuals, acting in concert with other individual CFRmembers, do. (Pages 150-15L) -- r They then explain how it happens: Once the ruling members of CFR have decided that die U. S. government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial research facilities of CFR are put to work to develop Its good to know that we can now afford to die. Now whos ready to proceed to Step II? A nation of well begins.-Benjaml- Chicago Tribune The campaign to surrender the Panama Canal was a classic application of the CFR strategy. Numerous early y line articles in Foreign Affairs laid down the which was subsequently parrotted by influential news media sources controlled by CFR members (such as the New York Times, Washington' Post, CBS, etc.). And, when the showdown came in the Senate, fifteen of the sixteen Senators who are now, or at onetime were, members of the CFR voted for the sellout treaties. (They were (current members) Senators Baker, Brooke, Case, Gark, Culver, Javits, Mathias, McGovern, Moynihan, Pell, Ribicoff,and Stevenson; and former members Bayh, The single exception was Bentsen, and Church. Delawares William Roth. In short, members of the CFR in the Senate decided the issue. Had even two others joined with Senator Roth in opposing the treaties, those ignominious documents would have been defeated. Needless to say. Professor Firmage also favors the Canal giveaway and vigorously promoted the treaties prior to their adoption. There is much more that could be said about Professor Firmage and his puppet-lik- e relationship to the CFR, but perhaps this is enough. (For an example of how he cleverly slipped the CFR line on disarmament into a major publication of the Mormon Church, see his article, Arms Control In The 70s, in The Ensign for March We acknowledge Professor 1977, pages Firmages right to belong to the CFR if he chooses, but we deplore the lengths to which he has gone to hide the full significance of that association from the voting public. We recognize his right to have worked for Hubert Humphrey, but we deplore the attempt he is now making to hide the extent of his commitment to Humphreys' socialist philosophy and goals. After the Supreme Court banned voluntary prayer in government schools on June 25, 1962, Mormon Church President David O. McKay asserted: Evidently the Supreme Court misinterprets the true meaning of the First Amendment, and is now leading a Christian nation down the road to atheism. In an attempt to undo outrageous decision, a move was launched to have Congress approve a Constitutional Amendment to make it permissible for persons in public buildings (including schools) to participate in voluntary prayer. In the Congressional Record for November 4, 1971, there is a list of more than three hundred law school deans and professors who signed a statement opposing the school prayer amendment. One such signer was Edwin Brown Firmage, University of Utah College of Law." The voters of the Second District (Utah) deserve to have all the facts pertaining to a candidates position on the political spectrum. We have simply attempted to bring to light a few which Professor Firmage has, understandably from his perspective, sought to camouflage thus far during the campaign. 54-59- .). . The Editors in- formed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny n Franklin -- the-Court- Foreign Relations as an organization....CFR is pittance. -- made at such meetings or attribution to the Council of information, even though otherwise available, is And you can take it with you , too man to market, at $2.75, a set of plans and in- -' structions for building ones own coffin for a ofstatements arguments,' intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy, and to confound and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition. The most articulate theoreticians and ideologists prepare related articles, aided by the research, to sell the new policy and to make it appear inevitable and irresistible. By following the evolution of this propaganda in the most prestigious scholarly journal in the world. Foreign Affairs, anyone can determine years in advance what the future defense and foreign policies of the United States will be. If a certain proposition is repeated often enough in that journal, then the U.S. administration in power be it Republican or Democratic begins to act as if that proposition or assumption were an established fact. (Page 151.) pro-treat- ed tax-wastin- A new item informs us that the high cost of dying has prompted a San Diego ws . .Th The dole is utterly demoralizing - its chief effect is to turn the unemployed into the unemployable. -- William Ralph Ingle s |