UN General Assembly
1951

67. We are well aware that this peace cannot be achieved by purely verbal or rhetorical efforts. No one believes in the peace offensive which is only aimed at weakening resistance, at impairing the spirit of self-preservation and at hampering the will for justice. There is, however, in all nations — and I might even say also in the Soviet mind, in the common or average man of that vast country — the desire for a real peace based on the readjustment of economic, political and military interests and inspired by the most cordial and human understanding. 68. President Auriol has given expression here [333rd meeting], with that eloquence and distinction which are characteristic of the French language, to that peace which is desired by all peoples of the world and particularly the peoples of Spanish America, with their deep attachment to peace and international justice.