UN General Assembly
1960

21. I now turn to the question that is uppermost in our minds, the question of disarmament. As I indicated earlier in my statement, we are met in a different atmosphere from that of the fourteenth session. Last year we met in a propitious atmosphere of hope and optimism. This session the atmosphere is beclouded by cold war acrimony over the failure of the disarmament talks in Geneva and over the worsening of tension generally. We are profoundly concerned at the failure of the Geneva talks, but we are more concerned lest the exchanges of bitter blames and counter blames in this Assembly, if they are slung for no other reason than propaganda, should render the possibility of an early resumption of talks all the more remote.