UN General Assembly
1949

25. On the other hand, the Czechoslovak delegation was willing at any time to discuss the positive contribution of the peoples’ democracies in strengthening and broadening human rights. Mr. Clementis pointed out that, while Governments which frowned upon the peoples’ democracies had been unable to guarantee freedom from fear of the atomic bomb to their citizens or freedom from want to their unemployed, the people of the peoples’ democracies had launched a world-wide proclamation of man’s inalienable right to peace. The peace congresses of Wroclaw, New York, Paris, Prague, Budapest, Moscow and Mexico City had been peace plebiscites at which the representatives of hundreds of millions of people had proclaimed their desire for peace, their will for peace and their firm resolve to destroy the evil work of warmongers and the grave-diggers of peace, both at home and abroad.