UN General Assembly
1968

50. A year that has been a painful one in many ways has made us realize that when that prospect vanishes we fall back on old recipes — the balance of forces, power, desire to dominate. Then come violence and discouragement. Then the men who embody a great ideal—the Kennedys, Martin Luther King — are sacrificed; then armies march again and their noise precedes the silence of death for hundreds of thousands of innocent people, today in Viet-Nam and Biafra, tomorrow perhaps elsewhere. Then, above all, the youth of our nations revolt because we are taking from them their reason for living and their reason for hope. If it is the role of the small countries to speak up in this Assembly with the voice of-moderation and sincerity, for what we have expressed here, and if. here we must undertake to act in conformity with our ideals, then I also can make that promise to you on behalf of Belgium.