UN General Assembly
1975

seems to have become manifest in that historic session, there are grounds for believing that a great step forward has been taken towards a change of attitude and that we are coming closer to the objectives of the Charter of our Organization. 237. Is not this the very meaning of the existence of our Organization? 238. Those wars which caused such unspeakable suffering originated in a poor distribution of the wealth of our planet. The United Nations, which was born of the ruins of one of those wars in order to prevent new scourges of that type which would create bad relations between rich and poor, should favor the development of that new international economic order. 239. The preamble to the Charter states: "We the peoples of the United Nations determined "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and