UN General Assembly
1960

35. I thought that President Eisenhower, when he addressed the Assembly [868th meeting], made a statesmanlike, constructive, generous speech. In a conference in which there appears to be a disposition in the minds of some to play for the ideological support — if I may use that horrible expression — of the new Member nations, and to bring them within what I believe are called "spheres of influence” for purposes of aggrandisement, the President of the United States took a high line. He said, in effects — I am not quoting his words — and I most respectfully agree, that we are not to look at our new colleagues as if they were voters to be collected, or as pawns in a vast international game; we are to look at them as independent, co-equal, and free. The new nations have not won their freedom only in order to barter it away. It is offensive to them to regard them as potential satellites.