UN General Assembly
1954

96. There are too many such alliances in the world. There is the Soviet-Chinese alliance — the Soviet Union, presumably, has alliances with other people — there is the United States’ alliance with Syngman Rhee and probably with Formosa; there is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and this and that and the other. It so much cuts into the whole idea of collective security and the principles of the Charter or, at any rate, its objectives; that is to say, it is a proclamation of the doctrine of balance of power and of power groupings. But as I said, while we regard this as harmful to the interests of peace, it does not at the present moment affect us greatly.