UN General Assembly
1959

36. It has been said, and rightly, that no practical Solution could be had as long as the crisis of confidence persists. But merely saying this does not help progress towards our goal. Further exploration must be made in order to find and establish and organize the elements of mutual confidence: in other words, to Set up and activate the mechanics of a reliable system of fact-finding and of control. This is going to be extremely difficult; but we are not supposed to reach only for easy things. 37. Luckily, there is no other choice than to overcome whatever difficulties there might remain between us and our goal of disarmament and of diverting the world’s human and economic resources to peaceful purposes; and luckily, too, the opinions of mankind are now so alerted regarding this matter, and so alive to its insuperably great .implications, that no delay and no laxity in connexion with it will for long be tolerated.