UN General Assembly
1960

193. This harsh reality has lately tended to acquire a dramatic character in America, the so-called continent of peace. Peoples who ever since the beginning of the second quarter of the past century have, with the staunchest possible faith in their destiny, been making great efforts to build up an ordered system of juridical bonds so that they might be able to continue to live together in peace, have now begun to experience intervention in their internal affairs by an extra-continental Power. This endangers not only their peaceful relations, but also their traditional institutions that give effect to legal systems for the defence of freedom and the moral dignity of man, which in America constitute the highest good.