UN General Assembly
1961

48. Effective and independent executive action is not the same question as balanced representation. In view of the enormous change in the membership of this body since its founding, the United States delegation will join in any effort for the prompt review and revision of the composition of United Nations bodies. 49. But to give this Organization three drivers — to permit each great Power to decide its own case- would entrench the cold war in the headquarters of peace. Whatever advantages such a plan may hold out to my own country, as one of the great Powers, we reject it. For we prefer world law, in the age of self- determination, to world war, in the age of mass extermination.