UN General Assembly
1951

104. It is also impossible to ignore the statement by the American and a considerable part of the European Press that the tripartite proposal for the reduction of armaments was put forward because the idea of peace advanced by the Soviet Union, in conjunction with the part played by the Soviet Union as a champion of peace, has proved effective. The western Powers, as the New York Herald Tribune, for example, writes, have had to think in their turn of launching proposals for the reduction of armaments in order to win at least a propaganda battle at the General Assembly. 105. And was not this confirmed here by General Romulo, who declared in his speech that the United States had never introduced such proposals as on this occasion. Why were those proposals introduced precisely on this occasion?