UN General Assembly
1962

102. I should like now to touch on a very explosive and inflammable topic which has been deliberately kept out of this Organization. It is the question of Berlin. For some reason best known to the great Powers, they have carefully and skilfully taken the Berlin question out of the Assembly. They do not want to bring it within the competence of the United Nations. Either they are afraid of the truth, or they do not want anybody to look into the problem and examine it critically. They want us to wake up one morning to find that they have started a third world war over our heads. I want to sound a note of warning. The time has come when the Assembly should try to find out what is happening in Berlin. We hear and see in pictures that a wall has been built; and people are escaping, people are shot. One plane buzzes another plane.