UN General Assembly
1947

A peace treaty has been signed with only one of the three main enemies of the democracies, and that on terms which have caused some Foreign Offices already to consider the possibility of its revision. As regards the other two, circumstances have not made it possible for us to overcome the difficulties of which we are aware. There was a ray of hope when, at the last Assembly, the United Nations dealt with the problem of disarmament. That hope soon died. For how could we have confidence in military disarmament unless it were accompanied by moral disarmament? And how can these two types of disarmament prosper together in an uncertain world, in which an attempt is being made to formulate a universal policy by the use of nationalist systems and methods? Our diplomatic language is to some extent the language of our era, but our actions are still very similar to those which strewed the tragic paths of history with millions of corpses.