Leo Pasvolsky: the Father of the UN

The United Nations organization was created in 1945, and it can be credited with almost single-handedly erasing the concept that all countries in the world have sovereignty and can do what they please within their borders. It ushered in and standardized the idea of globalism or internationalism.

Among its other actions, the UN once sanctioned the White-ruled countries of Rhodesia and South Africa because of those countries' policies concerning Blacks, and it allowed China - a communist nation - to become a member of the UN Security Council.

People often think of the suspected spy Alger Hiss, or maybe of the late president F. D. Roosevelt, when they ponder the origins of the UN [1]. But the man who created the "blueprint" for the UN was someone who is rarely mentioned these days: Dr. Leo Pasvolsky (1893-1953), who played the key role in the creation of the UN charter's 19 chapters - i.e. what the goals and agendas of the UN would be. Pasvolsky, a U.S. State Department official, also played a chief role in creating the program that was to be followed by the American delegation to the UN founding conference in San Francisco in 1945. He also was instrumental in America becoming a member of the UN.

A Jewish economist, author and onetime journalist who was born in Russia, Pasvolsky was a member of the (U.S.) Presidential Advisory Committee on Post War Foreign Policy. He was also the head of the governmental Division of Special Research, which was assigned to oversee the creation of global political and economic policy plans. More than that, Pasvolsky was a co-worker of Hiss' at the State Department, and he was also the man who regularly advised Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In fact, Pasvolsky had such a close relationship with Hull - as his Special Assistant - that Hull rarely made a political decision without consulting him first. (How such a close relationship impacted various State Department decisions during the Roosevelt/WWII era is anyone's guess, especially considering that Pasvolsky apparently came from far-left political roots).

Pasvolsky was also a key player in the creation of the World Bank.

Leo Pasvolsky can be described as the father of the UN, despite the actions of others in the creation of that organization.




[1] Hiss was not convicted of spying but of perjury

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