UN General Assembly
1946

For the second time this year the representatives of the United Nations are meeting in the General Assembly to continue with a firm and determined step along that path of which peace-loving peoples never lost sight even in times of great peril. We are again met together for the purpose of ensuring the slow but sure development of an international organization which was conceived on the field of battle, amid the noise of conflict and the fearful destruction wrought by total war, in the spirit of a philosophy of unity and mutual aid, of the redemption of the spiritual forces of mankind, and of sacrifice and mutual understanding between the nations.