UN General Assembly
1961

175. For the last few weeks the world has been plunged, into fear and anguish. The two great. Powers and their allies have been engaged in controversy which is likely to lead them along a dangerous path. The small nations are anxiously wondering what turn events will take, fearful that at any minute a rash and ill-advised action may unleash blind and destructive forces w! eh will bring to nought the efforts the free peoples have been making in this Organization for the last sixteen years to maintain peace and to ensure that wise and conciliatory solutions may prevail over violence.