UN General Assembly
1960

151. The United States has on previous occasions succoured many European nations which might have perished without such aid. And President Eisenhower has now again given expression to the magnanimous spirit of his nation. He proposed that we join forces in order to carry out a great programme which, it should be stressed, envisages measures designed not only to fight hunger and epidemics but, in equal measure, to render a contribution towards the utilisation of the great intellectual resources of the new nations. There are no differences of opinion on this, the most fateful question of our era. On the contrary, the two great Powers are determined to contribute to its solution. 152. This has been, up to now, the outstanding result of the fifteenth Session of the General Assembly. 153. The recent turn of historic events has brought about a substantial increase in United Nations membership. Consequently, the world Organization has come even closer to the realization of the principle of universality on which it is founded.