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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17037)	9/12/2000 8:21:15 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

I don't agree with a lot of the isolationists' positions, but they continue to be of interest because of the efforts launched to put down their movement. America has been dragged kicking and screaming into the globalist mindset. The defeat of the Bricker amendment in 1951 clinched it for the UN and its American enthusiasts. It started out with 56 co-sponsors, but went down to defeat 42-50, with 4 not voting. The Bricker amendment read as follows: Section 1. A provision of a treaty which conflicts with this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect. Section 2. A treaty shall become effective as internal law in the United States only through legislation which would be valid in the absence of treaty. Section 3. Congress shall have power to regulate all executive and other agreements with any foreign power or international organization. All such agreements shall be subject to the limitations imposed on treaties by this article. Section 4. The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Senator Arthur Vandenburg was opposed to the internationalists and was a staunch ally of Robert Taft. Then one day he turned around rather abruptly. I wonder how many other Senators were paid visits by operatives from MI6 or its East Coast Anglophilic allies. An excerpt from a review of a new book about MI6: "Dorril devotes many pages to the service's futile efforts to destabilize the Soviet empire. One really impressive triumph, however, he passes over in a paragraph. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.) has long been lauded by historians for his principled change of position from isolationism to interventionism, lending crucial support to President Harry Truman in 1947, when it was not altogether clear that the American people were ready to throw themselves into a Cold War. Dorril reports that the statesman's principles had a bit of a nudge between the sheets from a trio of British Mata Haris: Mitzi Sims, Elizabeth Thorpe and Eveline Patterson. "Using this unique access, the service helped impel the senator to put his considerable influence behind Truman and an internationalist stance that was more sympathetic toward British policies." calendarlive.com I don't get too excersised over this sort of thing, but as a history buff, I find these bits of arcana interesting. Also of interest was General Sudoplatov's book that proved that Joe McCarthy was right all along. The State Dept. was riddled with Soviet spies. Try and make that case today, though. <gg>