UN General Assembly
1955

6. Nevertheless, the barometer is not yet set fair. Let us not forget that the Geneva talks did not solve any single problem. Certainly they were not intended to do so; they were meant to afford a way of approach to solutions. However, the contacts achieved at Geneva were important and significant, and give grounds for hope that, as a result, a process of practical co-operation in respect of specific matters can be set in train directed towards the solution of particular international differences. However practical and down to earth we may believe ourselves to be, let us not adopt, in this inter-Geneva period, an attitude of scepticism. Let us look forward with hope to the meeting of the Foreign Ministers in Geneva next month. We will discover soon enough if the Geneva spirit is really what the world has been hoping and praying for. If not, I think the peoples will know who to blame.