UN General Assembly
1947

For example, they are complaining now of the United States’ action in bringing the question of Greece before the Assembly after it had been withdrawn from the Security Council’s agenda. They have no cause to complain. They showed the way last year when, in order to help their comrades in the wandering Spanish Government, they requested the withdrawal of the Spanish question from the agenda of the Security Council in order to bring it before the Assembly. There is this difference, however: while the case of Spain does not threaten world peace, that of Greece — as Mr. Vyshinsky is well aware — may be the powder keg which will once again touch off a weald war. In thinking over these matters, I remembered that one of the Soviet representatives in the Security Council referred to those of us who attacked the veto as “hot-headed”, and I thought sadly how much we, on our side, fed the lack of a representative capable of marshalling all the arguments against the veto with the serenity with which Mr. Vyshinsky defends it.