The interesting turn of events to me is the girlfriend that Obama lived with in New York.
Stepfather was son of (if i remember that right) of a good friend of Alger Hiss - Philip Jessup. Even after the conviction Jessup still stood up for Alger Hiss.
Interesting story of Jessup. Truman had to do a recess appointment.
Dean Acheson was a close friend of Jessup.
And this man is in their lineage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Harris_Jessup
One of the founders of Syrian Protestant College
I think it is possible Obama is headed for the United Nations after his defeat.
I think what we have here is a number of generations of JESSUP. The Jessup instrumental in the establishment of The American University of Beirut, must have been an ancestor of this man, who was the stepfather of Genevieve Cook, who attended The Banks Street school at the same time as William Ayres, and has been named as ‘Obama’s First Girlfriend’ - (It’s a small UNITED NATIONS/AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT WORLD)
Philip Jessup: Philip Jessup is the man who represents the United States as one of the eleven justices on the United Nations World Court. His past is studded with affiliations with groups officially designated as Communist fronts. One of these, the Institute of Pacific Relations, has already been discussed. However, since Jessup was probably the most prominent and influential of all the leaders of this organization, it warrants recalling that the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee found that:
The IPR has been considered by the American Communists and by Soviet officials as an instrument of Communist policy, propaganda and military intelligence. . . . A small core of officials and staff members carried the main burden of IPR activities and directed its administration and policies. Members of the small core of officials and staff members who controlled the IPR were either Communists or pro-Communists.
Jessup was chairman of the IPR American council from 1939 to 1940 and chairman of its Pacific council from 1939 to 1942. Both councils were high-level policy-making bodies.40
Jessup, both in and out of the IPR, was closely associated with Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Lauchlin Currie. And, like Ralph Bunche, he came to the defense of Hiss as a character witness at Hiss’s trial.
When Frank Coe, secretary of the United Nations International Monetary Fund, testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1952, be inadvertently put Jessup in rather strange company. After readily answering questions about his associations with sundry individuals who had never been implicated in the Communist conspiracy, he suddenly found it necessary to invoke the Fifth Amendment when asked if he knew Philip Jessup.
Jessup served as assistant secretary-general of the UNRRA conference in 1943 and the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944. He was a member of the American delegation to the San Francisco conference in 1945. He was also the United States representative on the fifteen-man United Nations committee of jurists that had drafted the World Court statute. Continuing as a technical expert and advisor to various important UN commissions, Jessup prepared the State Department’s infamous “White Paper” on China. Written at the very time when the Communists were overrunning the mainland of China, this report lavishly praised the Reds and condemned the anti-Communist Nationalist forces. Jessup later became one of the early advocates for the admission of Red China to the United Nations.
President Truman was so impressed by this record that he appointed Jessup as United States delegate to the United Nations in 1951. When the appointment came before the Senate, however, it was not approved because of Jessup’s pro-Communist record. At the United Nations, Soviet delegate Vyshinsky reacted by praising Jessup during a meeting of the General Assembly’s political committee. Vyshinsky said he bad “learned with dismay” the Senate’s decision.”41 Equally dismayed, of course, was President Truman who proceeded to circumvent the Senate action by assigning Jessup to the United Nations on an “interim appointment.”42
Shortly after the Eisenhower administration came in on the promise of cleaning the United States security risks out of the United Nations, the State Department approved the appointment of Philip Jessup as our candidate for the UN World Court—an infinitely more important position than the one denied him by the Senate. This time, however, neither Congress nor the Senate had any voice in the selection.
Even though each country is allowed to nominate two of its own nationals and two from other countries, the United States elected to nominate three foreigners with Philip Jessup as the only American—making it very clear to all that he was the man!
In the final voting, Jessup was elected by an overwhelming majority. With both the United States and the USSR voting for him, how could he miss?
http://www.peacekey.com/1-1-a/UN_Web/1_UN_Book/The_Fearful_Master_09.htm
Have you read about his grandson...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Philip_Caryl_Jessup.aspx#2-1E1:Jessup-P-full
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jessup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_C._Jessup_International_Law_Moot_Court_Competition
McCarthy was onto him. UN...International Law...Bretton Woods...