[Buckeye McFrog]

I was no fan of Cronkite but do you have any documentation that this is true? I have never heard of this website.

[a fool in paradise]

There is video of his speech on youtube.

And Walter says that Americans are just going to have to give up ‘some’ sovereignty.

And he says that he supported these goals going back to the 30s or 40s.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

How about the YouTube videos that are posted?

[rlmorel]

This is absolutely true. I don't use Wikipedia because it is politically unreliable, but...this is what they say there:

In accepting the 1999 Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the ceremony at the United Nations, Cronkite said:

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen.