UN General Assembly
1952

45. The general debate is a fitting occasion for stocktaking, The United Nations is founded upon the principle of collective security. In its first test, that of aggression in Korea, the United Nations, under the leadership of the United States and with the support of a substantial majority of Member States, has not failed, 46. Twenty-one years ago, the League of Nations was confronted with a similar act of aggression in Manchuria. The League failed to act on its declared principles. With what result? The Second World War became inevitable. Had the United Nations hesitated in that fateful last week of June 1950, it would have invited the same fate as that which befell the League of Nations.