UN General Assembly
1954

104. Let us recognize that the United Nations has hitherto allowed too free scope to nationalist passions, and that at times it may even have seemed to encourage them without sufficient regard for the effects which such an attitude might have on the purposes for which it was set up. We have seen that happen at previous sessions. The prestige of the United Nations in our respective countries is too great and we listen too attentively to the voices from this rostrum, for us not to have weighed properly the consequences of the words that have so often been uttered within these walls.