UN General Assembly
1951

79. Thus the American continent, meeting in the Pan American Union’s Salon de las Americas, expressed its solidarity of action through its most authoritative spokesmen on foreign policy when it endorsed the resolution which has made it possible for the General Assembly to obtain new powers that will put an end to the vetoes and obstructionist tactics used in the Security Council under cover of Article 27 of the Charter. 50. I have mentioned Korea. When hostilities broke out — immediately subsequent to the resolutions of the Security Council — as a result of the flagrant aggression of those who avail themselves of whatever means to satisfy their absurd ambitions of conquest — many feared that the flame of a third world war might be set alight in those areas.