UN General Assembly
1962

41. As each new Member is admitted to the United Nations, the remaining number of nations and peoples who continue to be subject to colonial rule is reduced. Unfortunately, however, it would appear that there is in certain quarters a hardening of the attitudes of those few nations who have not yet accepted the universal challenge to end colonial domination once and for all. On the continent of Africa, in spite of this Assembly's declaration on the granting of independence to colonial peoples, Spain and Portugal continue to shut their ears to the demands of the indigenous people of so-called Spanish and Portuguese Guinea, of Fernando Po, Angola and Mozambique for independence. Surprisingly, the Government of the United Kingdom, with an excellent record of preparing the people of former British colonies, including my own Sierra Leone, for independence, appears in the case of Southern Rhodesia to be hesitant to defend this fine record of theirs against the increasingly totalitarian policies and methods of the white minority who, claiming a totally false and undemocratic "self-government", continue to trample on the rights of the African majority. In South West Africa the Government of South Africa insists on flouting the authority of the United Nations by attempting to convert a mandate of the League of Nations into an imperial right to govern the indigenous people against their will.