UN General Assembly
1947

These instances of violation of the United Nations Charter are all the more striking if one observes how conscientiously it has been obeyed by the USSR, which, of course, withdrew its troops from China, Norway, the island of Bornholm and Iran. A regular war is also being waged by the United Kingdom on the soil of Palestine, which is most rightfully striving for its independence. Nor can we fail to notice the sanguinary events which have been going on in Indonesia for nearly two years. Despite the Security Council’s “cease-fire” order in Indonesia, Netherlands troops continue their offensive. It is abundantly clear that each of these so-called local wars is a breach of the peace, and that each of them, as the experience of the last war has shown, beam within itself the threat of transformation into an armed conflict on a far vaster scale.