UN General Assembly
1960

157. However, it is not only the political structure of Asia and Africa — and, incidentally, of Latin America — which have undergone a fundamental change. There has been a peaceful evolution in Europe the importance of which should not, I submit, be underestimated. And there is a growing conviction among the democratic European nations — nearly 300 million people — that a programme of mutual co-operation, transcending frontiers, should be initiated with the aim of combining the spiritual and material resources of that part of the continent. I would ask you to consider that the concepts of social welfare and social justice originated in Europe and that it is in Europe that they have reached maturity.