UN General Assembly
1968

67. A succession of crises, beginning at least as far back as 1956, seem to be bringing the world inexorably towards a real politik based on a tacit demarcation of spheres of influence. A country like mine must hope that this reading of developments in international relations is radically wrong; “spheres of influence" sounds to us ominously akin to the bad old concept of “balance of power", and any undergraduate knows what the world has suffered in the name of that wicked, immoral euphemism for the law of the jungle.