UN General Assembly
1953

33. The expansion of communism having being halted on the line from Stettin to the Adriatic the Communists hoped, in return, to achieve domination of Asia and the hegemony of the Pacific Ocean, thus directly threatening the security of the American continent. What I am saying is not a product of the imagination but the result of an objective analysis of geographic, economic and political factors. In spite of the contrast between the venerable antiquity of the Asian world and the vigorous youth of the American world, there have been mysterious links between these two continents. The most probable explanation is that American man is descended from Asian man. There have been noteworthy similarities between the paternal government of the Incas and the tutelary systems of China. In the Iberian Peninsula, the source from which Latin-American culture stems, the Arabs left their blood, their science, their culture, and what they passed on to us from Greece. Stronger yet than these historic and ethnic links is the bond forged between these two groups of peoples by their glorious struggle for liberty. In their community of destiny, the peoples of America greeted with enthusiasm the achievement of liberty and democracy among their distant brothers in Asia.