UN General Assembly
1947

In this connexion, I must stress the necessity of giving the principal organs of the United Nations the same direction as we have tried to give to its dependent specialized agencies — UNESCO, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. What are the objectives of these agencies? To establish and strengthen peace by creating an atmosphere of peace, either, like UNESCO, by freeing man from ignorance through education and the emancipating power of knowledge; or, like the FAO, by freeing him from hunger through a substantial increase in production, or again, like the World Health Organization, by freeing him from illness through the co-operation of all our countries in the field of public health. No one questions the noble aims of the agencies I have mentioned, but how will they be able to carry on their activities in a world which demands that children work for peace, that the undernourished be patient and that the invalids show goodwill, while in the economic and political fields, a new and horrible conflict is being - insidiously prepared?