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 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.”

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 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.

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

... It would be better for mankind... that the rich be tossed into the sea. A.C
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