Truthout.org has an article about the Bretton Woods agreement,
and how it was blocked in the US for 50 years. This is a short
excerpt, you can read the whold article online.

http://tinyurl.com/6yxchhk

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This same weekend that opened July 1944, a three-week meeting
was convened in an isolated hotel in New HampshireΓÇÖs White
Mountains near the town of Bretton Woods. Bankers, economists,
and representatives of the governments of forty-four nations
arrived for the meeting, which was convened as the International
Monetary and Financial Conference of the United and Associated
Nations.

The official history of the meeting suggests it was a group of
nations getting together to work out a new international
economic world order that would prevent a repeat of the Great
Depressions and the European inflations that had occurred in the
1930s and driven Hitler to prominence and power with his
promises to ΓÇ£restore Germany to greatness.ΓÇ¥

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The main obstacle to full ratification of all parts of the
Bretton Woods Agreement was conservative conspiracy
theoristsΓÇöboth in and outside the U.S. government but
particularly in the U.S. CongressΓÇöwho suspected that the
Bretton Woods meeting was an early attempt to use the United
Nations to impose a ΓÇ£one-world governmentΓÇ¥ on the United
States, perhaps even in collaboration with what they saw as an
international communist conspiracy. That the meetings began more
than a year before the war ended was evidence, in the minds of
some of those suspicious of the agreement, that there was
something up the sleeves of those who met to hammer out an
accord. That at that time the Soviets were our World War II
allies made it all the more suspicious to the American
hard-right wing.

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BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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