UN General Assembly
1946

Arbitrators there must be. Small nations can play this part; nevertheless, the experience which we have gained during our work in the Security Council shows that the small and medium-sized countries represented in that Council have not performed this function. On the contrary, in the discussions and disputes between the great States they have always taken the side of one group of States against the others. This is sufficiently borne out by the statistics. For example, the Security Council has had to deal with eight political questions, and on all these eight questions the result of the voting was the same with mathematical regularity, namely nine to two. The assertion that the small and medium-sized States can play the part of arbitrators was contradicted by the experience of the League of Nations. The policy of the League of Nations proved incapable of saving the world from Munich and from war.