UN General Assembly
1949

107. Since the United Nations had come into being at the San Francisco Conference of plenipotentiaries held in 1945, it could be regarded as having been created prior to the conclusion of the Second World War. At that time many statesmen had acclaimed that fact as a good omen for the speedy establishment of a just peace at the end of the war, but the results should now be considered carefully. It had to be admitted that, although four years had elapsed since the end of the armed conflict, some of the most important peace treaties had not been signed and there was no immediate hope of their being signed. World peace had not yet been organized. Some countries still had to be considered technically as enemy States and, what was worse, the differences between the victors and the vanquished were not as great as those between the victorious Powers themselves.