Since the Senate hadn’t yet ratified that U.N. declaration (the United States only voted in favor of it in the United Nations), conservatives charged that the treaty with Japan was a “sneak attack” on the Constitution, as the Chicago Tribune put it, a “roundabout approach” to get the United States signed on to social rights, desegregation, and other anti-racist principles. “In other words,” the Tribune continued, “once the U.N. ‘rights’ get a foot in the American door, the Constitution and Bill of Rights can be rewritten to suit the Truman politicians.”
