UN General Assembly
1963

Mr. President, I should like immediately to say what a pleasure it is for me, representing my country here, to sit under your chairmanship. We are confident that your great gifts of intellect and your natural authority will guide this Assembly well during all its sittings. Therefore I wish you every success in your high office and I pledge that the delegation of the United Kingdom will always co-operate to help you and to further the purposes of our Organization and the smooth working of our affairs. 52. For a number of years those of us who have spoken to the Assembly have done so against a background of cold war, and on any analysis it has been the deep schism in ideology between the communist world and the rest that has accounted for the comparative failure of the United Nations to develop collective security and peace-keeping machinery —at once the ambition of the authors of the Charter and in the long run the only sure guarantee for the peace of the world.