UN General Assembly
1961

77. Happily, we have still a chance to do better. The President of the United States gave us,, in his address [1013th meeting], a stirring and practical lead in announcing his scheme for general and complete disarmament, the purpose of which was to desire the means of war. My Government fully supports and agrees with that scheme. We are glad, too, that the United States and the Soviet Union have been able to agree upon the principles which should govern a disarmament treaty, I have compared those principles with the ones announced following the meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth earlier this year and have found no substantial difference. It may be that, at long last, we can take the first halting steps along the road to sanity. But is no use hiding our heads