UN General Assembly
1951

112. As one means of escape from this dread anxiety, my country is now forced to increase its armed strength, though there lies ahead of it, as a young country, a tremendous task of peaceful national development to which it desires to direct all its energy, all its resources and all its wealth. But instead, for the protection of our very existence, we are now forced, by the unfriendly, aggressive policies of the Cominform States, to devote today about 45 per cent of our budget to defence. History shows that arms alone have never been able to ensure peace. But what alternative is there in present circumstances to acquiring that strength from which alone the free world can negotiate, with any chance of success, with those who recognize no other test but power? No words of the kind which Mr. Vyshinsky has uttered in this debate will deflect my own country from this course, because nothing he has said, and indeed his Government has done, has lessened the burden of our fear.