UN General Assembly
1965

131. We for our part will resist violence because we do not despair of the possibilities of peaceful change. We have only to look about us to see one aspect of a change which has occurred In the last twenty years without shattering the basis of international order. Membership of the United Nations has become the endorsement of sovereignty for many newly Independent nations. Three new States have been admitted at this session - the Gambia, the Maldive Islands and Singapore — and we welcome them. 132. New Zealand has played a part In aiding this tide towards independence, through the Trusteeship System and through our support of the Declaration on the ending of colonialism. This year the people of the Cook Islands, a small territory in the Pacific hitherto under New Zealand administration, exercised