UN General Assembly
1962

55. What do the people of New Zealand expect? We expect conditions in which mankind can develop in freedom, unfettered by poverty, ignorance and disease. These are words to which I and my fellow Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth subscribed a few days ago at our conference in London. New Zealanders believe — to put it in our own language — in a fair deal, not just for ourselves but for all men. In New Zealand we have established a society without discrimination, where the dignity and the worth of every human being is recognized. We cannot rest content with any national or world order that is not based on similar recognition of the worth of every human being and on similar efforts to realize it in practice. We New Zealanders do not like living in a world where hundreds of millions of people are hungry and where the gulf between rich and poor, between the industrialized nations and the agricultural nations, appears to be increasing. We have supported and shall continue to support the efforts of the United Nations to do something effective about this situation, which we regard as intolerable.