UN General Assembly
1957

115. The second version is that the Near and Middle East are threatened in some way by the Soviet Union. Yet since there is in reality no such threat, as the inventors of this fantasy are well aware, there is nothing plausible that they can say on that score. It is true that, according to them, individuals who are not acceptable to Washington have been appointed to some public posts in Syria. But why should such questions be decided in Washington rather than in Syria, and what have they to do with the Soviet Union?