UN General Assembly
1961

156. The generation that fought in the Second World War is justified in pointing an accusing finger at its elders for allowing the League of Nations to fail and allowing the world to slide into war again. Was that failure due to a lack of high principles in the Preamble to the Covenant of that body? No. The fault lay not in the lack of principles in the Covenant but in the lack of determination to put them into practice. This failure made it possible for the Hitler regime to plunge the world into the Second World War. 157. Between the two wars humanity progressed. Science made great strides, with the result that the second war was yet more ghastly and destructive than the first. And again, with even greater solemnity, and with the ghost of many more millions of war victims looking over their shoulders, the victors sat down to build a world Organization to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.