UN General Assembly
1949

17. Did the history of- the years which had since passed, and particularly of the Second World War, prove that Hitler and the men of Munich had been right? Did it indeed bring proof that jungle law was stronger than the principles of collaboration and the joint action of peoples in the name of progress? Of course not. It was always those who violated those principles, the Hitlers and the Chamberlains, who failed. The war alliance of the great Powers, tempered in the fire of combat, built on principles of collaboration, equality and joint decisions, had led the United Nations to victory. It was through Teheran, Moscow, Yalta and Potsdam, through the difficult task of drawing up joint, unanimous and compromise decisions, and not by imposing their will by force, not by arbitrary decisions, that the Allies had trod the path leading them to Rome, Berlin and Tokyo.