UN General Assembly
1960

121. I do not make this comparison to attack the Soviets. I had always hoped that this great problem of world economic development might have been discussed at a summit meeting. Indeed, General de Gaulle had publicly proposed that some complementary and co-operative efforts might be undertaken oh an East-West basis, to start with no doubt in a limited field, but perhaps growing with experience. At any rate I believe that if we could revive the spirit of last spring this would be a fruitful source of discussion. Certainly it must be true that the emergent and under-developed countries would be the beneficiaries of a political “detente” between the great rival forces of East and West. Any new summit conference, therefore, would be bound to be economic as well as political.