UN General Assembly
1959

58. If responsibilities so serious as those now facing us are to be assumed, the world must be in a sound state of health. Our own health, in certain important respects, certainly seems to have improved. For instance, feeling in the Middle East seems to be better than it was at the time of previous Assemblies, and there is less bitterness there. Greater understanding between its peoples and the Western world — which God grant may some day turn into understanding between all peoples — places them, as soon as they begin to feel that the justice of many of their aspirations has been understood, on a better basis for resisting the revolutionary temptation of universal communist violence, to which they would never yield on fundamental issues, since they are peoples possessing outstanding virtues incompatible with materialism as a way of life. But for understandable reasons of expediency they might temporize with it, wounded as they have been by what they regard as insults from the Western Powers.