"To Achieve World Government..." Fact-Check

In 1946, Brock Chisholm - the first Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) - argued in favor of "the suggestion that we should stop teaching children moralities and rights and wrongs and instead protect their original intellectual integrity...".

The quote, "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas," is actually from Jean Carter, Frmr. Chairman of CARE (Citizens Advocating Responsible Education) who issued the comment in 1975 (published by “The News,” in an article titled, “Lions Hear Views on New Education Policy” on July 11, 1975).

The confusion occurred because a 1977 newspaper article - which led with Carter’s quote, followed by a statement from Chisholm - was mistakenly cited by several books (crediting the quote to Chisholm). The mistake was likely never detected because, barring the reference to “individualism,” Chisholm argued the same points in a lecture titled, "The Reestablishment of Peacetime Society" (published by “Psychiatry: Journal of the Biology and the Pathology of Interpersonal Relations” in February 1946).