UN General Assembly
1948

«I do not personally believe that friendly relations between India and Hyderabad, which we are agreed are the necessary prelude to a satisfactory long-term settlement, can come so long as the state of affairs to which I have referred above exists. I am not saying this as Governor-General of India. I am saying it as an impartial observer and as a well-wisher of Hyderabad. » Unfortunately, the appeal had fallen on deaf ears. But that already belonged to the dead past of history; she would not dwell on it.