UN General Assembly
1953

3. Our co-operation is not synthetic; our unity is not imposed, nor is it of that monolithic type that Mr. Vyshinsky proudly ascribed the other day [438th meeting] to Soviet society. Honest differences openly expressed are bound to exist within and between free governments. Not only do we acknowledge them; at times we seem almost gratuitously to advertise them. But anyone who seeks to divide us in the United Nations or elsewhere by misinterpreting or exploiting these differences will soon find that the things that hold us together are far stronger and more enduring than those which at times seem to divide us. 4. If there are opportunities now for easing in some degree international tension, I hope that this eighth session of the General Assembly will use them to the full. We may not be able to change the facts of international life by resolutions in our Assembly. But by omission or commission, by what we say or do not say, we can lighten or darken the international atmosphere in which our problems must be solved.