UN General Assembly
1956

124. The United Nations itself has been able at this session to work with «a harmony unsurpassed since San Francisco, The United States and the Soviet Union have been able to vote together on very grave issues. Let us hope that they can continue to work together. Generally speaking, the “cold war” has diminished, thus ushering in a new season: the coming of peace. 125. The rapidity and nature of this evolution in world affairs has — not surprisingly — been met by resistance and reaction. We feel that resistance. We see it today active and spearheaded by a revival of colonial policy acting in conjunction with Zionism. It is by no means a coincidence that the United Kingdom, France and Zionism, which reveals itself here in the Assembly through Israel, have acted together at this historic juncture in world developments. It is not surprising that they precipitated their action before world developments made it too late for them to act in the way they did.