UN General Assembly
1959

32. In the name of the self-proclaimed "twentieth century" standards of International conduct, the representative of the Netherlands the other day enunciated a policy of withholding aid unless the developing nations accepted his standards of good behaviour. But surely the willingness of a nation to submit indefinitely to colonial economic status cannot be a yardstick of internationally acceptable behaviour. Speaking for ourselves, and we believe also for the great majority of the new nations, we assure the Assembly that we would not be parties to an aid arrangement on any such inequitable terms. We assume, indeed, that it is now universally recognized that the granting of economic assistance should not be conditioned on political terms. 33. I have spoken about two discordant forces in the international community; colonialism which divides the world into free and subject peoples, and poverty which divides it into the haves and have-nots. But overshadowing both these forces, and complicating and making more difficult their elimination, is the cold war which splits the world of man into two distrustful camps.