UN General Assembly
1951

95. It is difficult to see what value can be attached to this whole scheme, as outlined in the so-called tripartite declaration, because, in submitting their proposals for a so-called reduction of armaments, the authors of the proposals declare that as long as the Korean war continues, as we were told by the President of the United States of America yesterday and again by Mr. Acheson today, “ and while the major political issues that divide the nations remain unsettled ”, — I am quoting from the relevant part of the speech made by the President of the United States yesterday — “real progress toward reducing armaments may not be possible”. 96. This remark is characteristic. It clearly reveals the true meaning of the so-called three-power peace offensive led by the United States of America at the sixth session of the General Assembly in 1951. That offensive is supposed to open a new era in the fight for peace, but in fact it has nothing to do with peace or the strengthening of peace.