UN General Assembly
1958

67. We have often felt that Spain' s greatest public "business" — using the word in the sense in which it was employed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in speaking of the supreme task, that of salvation — since the discovery of the American continent has perhaps been the emancipation of America. The generous individual and free policies of the separate States into which it is divided are at once in unison and varying, concordant and reflecting many shades of opinion, with a flexibility and impact difficult to attain by more conservative means. In the world today they may clearly be seen working for peace and for the highest ideals of freedom and wisdom upon which the future of mankind may be built.