UN General Assembly
1962

First, I should like to add the profound sympathy of the United States Government to the condolences Which have already been expressed to the family and people, of the late Imam of. Yemen. Our earnest hopes go out to the new Imam for a successful and fruitful reign. 38. I should like to begin by reaffirming as emphatically as I can the high significance which the Government of the United States attaches to the work of the United Nations. My Government is more than ever convinced that the success or failure of this Organization could well mean the difference between world order and world anarchy. We believe that the work that lies before the seventeenth session of the General Assembly is serious —and that it is also urgent.