UN General Assembly
1952

166. Now it is exactly in the sector of peace and security that thus far the United Nations has not been able to live up to the high expectations roused in 1945. We all know the reason for this deficiency. In 1945, towards the close of the Second World War, there was reason to hope for continuing agreement among the nations which had combined their forces against their totalitarian aggressors in the East and in the West. Today we see that this ideal is still far from realized and that our world is divided and once again faced by aggressive intent. Once more the political climate is tense with threatening storms. Once more we are obliged to devote our greatest energy to self-defence and to building up collective security and collective resistance against aggression or the danger of it.