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   
      
    ...   
      
    This same weekend that opened July 1944, a three-week meeting   
    was convened in an isolated hotel in New Hampshire’s 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 “restore Germany to greatness.”   
      
    ...   
      
    The main obstacle to full ratification of all parts of the   
    Bretton Woods Agreement was conservative conspiracy   
    theorists—both in and outside the U.S. government but   
    particularly in the U.S. Congress—who suspected that the   
    Bretton Woods meeting was an early attempt to use the United   
    Nations to impose a “one-world government” 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.   
      
    ...   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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