UN General Assembly
1983

While a message of peace and offers of constructive co-operation for the good of humanity can be heard from the capitals of the socialist States, the talk in NATO capitals is all about how these overtures can most effectively be countered. From Prague and Moscow there has come this year another catalogue of proposals by the States parties to the Warsaw Treaty. The implementation of those proposals in good faith, without prejudice to either side, would free the world from the ominous arms race and the spectre of war. From Williamsburg and Paris we have heard chiefly of new armaments and the intensification of the anti-communist crusade.