UN General Assembly
1961

104. Here in the United States the Belgrade Conference was received with discourtesy. Former President Truman, in a statement to the Press, has asked the neutrals to take sides with the free world. "They are free now," he said, "because we made them free." This statement, or to be more accurate, this misstatement, we flatly reject. The neutrals have not been made free by the free world. Precisely, they have been freed from the free world. This so-called free world was their captor and exploiter. It was through tears, sweat and blood in liberation wars that the neutrals achieved their freedom. One nation after another had to battle for liberty against the United Kingdom and France, the two giant architects of imperialism in this world. Contrary to what was Said by the United Kingdom Foreign Minister, it was not a peaceful evolution but a bloody revolution. The non-aligned nations have made their freedom, but it is the West which has made something else. The West Ms made their neutrality.