On 08/17/2015 03:39 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Walter Cronkite, famous CBS news anchor said: "We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government".
Methinks Walter Concrete was visualizing a different sort of 'world government'. As were most civilians who supported the concept. No one expected it to become an arm of policy for the Industrialized nations of the world and their 3rd world manufacturing satrap's dictators and strongmen After all, Concrete was the guy who, when Dan Rather got thugged by a couple of people dressed as ushers during the 1968 Democratic National Convention just as Rather was going on-air to interview an ejected delegate from the Georgia delegation (RIP Julian Bond), said in quite simple terms while Rather was still gasping for breath after being sucker punched in the gut two or three times "It looks like we've got a bunch of thugs here." See for yourself (footage): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wItUjFU1i4M Let me know if you EVER hear anything like that again from ANY talking head newsreader/anchor covering US Politics. Later, he sounded the death knell for the American War on Vietnam. I think Cronkite was one of the last credible (in the American mileu and it's belief system) anchor on US MSM television, and he represented, in the statement you quote above, a belief in a functioning UN that represented all world citizens equally. Of course that "UN" did not have a snowball's chance in hell. RR