UN General Assembly
1959

26. Twenty years ago this month the structure of peace that President Wilson had helped to build collapsed in war. In the backwash of the Second World War, however, man continued his quest for peace through international organization. The States subscribing to the United Nations Charter at San Francisco in 1945 sought to build a new and more effective instrument for this purpose. This meeting is one more step in our continuing effort to strengthen that Organization and to fulfill its goals. If all of us devote ourselves faithfully to this task, and thus carry out the obligations of the Charter, I believe that we can achieve the peaceful world which people everywhere earnestly desire.