UN General Assembly
1960

65. I used the well-known phrase "peaceful coexistence". Perhaps I should make it quite clear that we would welcome "peaceful coexistence" if the communists would only practise it. Nobody denies or regrets the great modem development of the resources of the communist Powers. The technological achievements of the Soviet Union, for example, have excited our admiration. All that we ask is that we be left alone to enjoy our own forms of government and our own type of civilization. 66. I was profoundly interested in what Mr. Nehru said about disarmament, and about the need for establishing contemporaneously arrangements for disarmament and inspection. There are, however, two aspects of this matter, about which he and I have exchanged ideas before today, which are worth mentioning.