UN General Assembly
1972

238. I am aware that, quite cleverly, the United Kingdom is not impeaching our right to ask these people to go, but rather is attacking the method by which we have asked them to go. First, they cannot impeach us for asking aliens to go, because it is our right under the Charter to do so. Therefore, our impeachment before you, our censure, must be carried out, in the United Kingdom's view, by reliance on what is called "humanitarian considerations". But you cannot discuss this and get the sense of the. problem in its totality without taking into account the story I have just told.