UN General Assembly
1965

4. I should like also to express sincere good wishes to the new States that have been admitted to the United Nations, namely the Gambia, the Maldive Islands and Singapore, and to welcome them into this family of nations. 5. The universal confidence in the successful outcome of the work of this twentieth session is fresh proof of the vitality of the United Nations and the reason for that confidence is that the United Nations is still today the strongest bulwark of peace. 6. The experience of the past lends support to the hopes we place in the United Nations, for the past gives us the occasion to remind the critics and the pessimists that a similar institution — the League of Nations, founded in 1919 — was never able to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, since by 1939 the world was already in the first throes of the Second World War. 7. Today, however, we can attend this twentieth session of the United Nations General Assembly more convinced than ever that peace is mankind's