Bush: U.S. rejoining UNESCO. (Insider Report).

"As a symbol of our commitment to human dignity, the United States will return to UNESCO. [Applause.] This organization has been reformed and America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights and tolerance and learning' So spoke President George W. Bush in his September 12th speech at the United Nations. Rejoining UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was proposed by the Clinton State Department in 1993. But President Clinton did not have the political capital to pull it off. Thus it was left to a "conservative" Republican to do the job. President Reagan dropped U.S. membership in the organization in 1984 following considerable public outcry over a long string of UNESCO abuses. Especially outrageous was the proposed New World Information Order, under which UNESCO would license all journalists, broadcasters, and media personnel.

UNESCO was a fount of subversion and controversy from its founding in 1946, coming under fire regularly for promoting world government and Marxism. A candid, pro-UNESCO editorial in The Saturday Review in 1952 declared:

If UNESCO is attacked on the grounds that it is helping to prepare the world's peoples for world government, then it is an error to burst forth with apologetic statements and denials. Let us face it: the job of UNESCO is to help create and promote the elements of world citizenship. When faced with such a "charge," let us by all means affirm it from the housetops.

In 1956, the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded that "by far the worst danger spot, from the standpoint of disloyalty and subversive activity among Americans employed by international organizations, is UNESCO...." We see little evidence that the organization has reformed. In fact, UNESCO is more dangerous than ever; it is being positioned as a global school board.