UN General Assembly
1969

in history those based on racial doctrines are the most odious and the most dangerous. Mankind is distinguished from the brutes by his capacity for compassion, for justice and for reason. To tyrannize over anyone is to depart from compassion. To deny anyone his political rights is to depart from justice. But to do these things on the basis of bogus theories of racial supremacy is to depart from reason as well. 75. But although this régime remains at present in power, it lives in isolation from the world, earning the detestation of the world and cut off by the operation of sanctions from the bright economic future which should be the birthright of its peoples but which is denied to them by the operation of racial doctrines. We in the United Kingdom have made very clear the legal and diplomatic nature of this isolation. The Governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, having served most valiantly, has now rightly resigned his Office. We have recalled our mission from Salisbury. Rhodesia House in London stands empty. These were right and necessary