UN General Assembly
1954

47. Forgive me for these remarks. I shall now read the written statement that I was eager to deliver at the right moment. I am going to read it slowly because it contains a few ideas which I should like to sink into the hearts and minds of the representatives of the big countries and to make an impression on the newspapers and communication media of this great country. 48. It is difficult to analyse the international situation over the period between one General Assembly and the next. However new the facts observed may appear to be, they form part of a complex of contradictions and difficulties which have beset the life of the international community since the end of the last world war, leaving no respite nor breathing space to the peoples, which placed their faith in the Charter signed at San Francisco in the belief that peace had been concluded with victory.