UN General Assembly
1952

21. So much goodwill is being lavished on efforts to find a formula which, while respecting the principles on which our action is based, would give the parties on either side the guarantees they demand, that it cannot be wasted. Perhaps we are on the eve of a decision which, if favourable, would be a first step towards a just peace. The day such decision is reached, the principle of collective security will once again have been vindicated. Let us therefore wait and hope. 22. I should like to express before you our feelings on another subject. I refer to the debates concerning the Non-Self-Governing Territories. During the last few years these debates have taken a form which is ill in keeping with the spirit of co-operation that the Members of the United Nations pledged themselves to maintain among themselves. The resulting uneasiness might, in the long run, even injure the United Nations itself.