UN General Assembly
1963

108. To say that the Investigators did not take all the necessary precautionary measures to ensure the integrity of their findings is not in any way to place blame upon them. Their number was too few and they had far too short a time at their disposal. Facilities were entirely dependent upon the co-operation of local colonial authorities. This being the case, my Government does strongly feel that in the circumstances their report should then have Included a full description of the conditions in which the hearings did take place. We, who were but a short time ago a colonial people ourselves, know very well from bitter experience that mere figures on the number of answers obtained are not enough. Without a knowledge of the conditions surrounding the various hearings, how can we be even reasonably sure that the wishes of the people have been genuinely ascertained? I can assure you that my Government, for one, is still in doubt.