UN General Assembly
1958

48. I invite you to ponder over these figures. In the past five years one and a half times as much has been collected in taxes as in the 156 years' existence of the United States up to 1945. 49. Accordingly, the Soviet Union's proposal for a reduction of 10 to 15 per cent in the military budgets of States, and in the first instance of the United States, the USSR, the United Kingdom and France, and for the allocation of part of the savings so effected for broad economic assistance to the under-developed countries is more than timely.