UN General Assembly
1956

193. It is in assisting reconciliation of the two sides, inducing them to meet together and negotiate, that my delegation believes the Assembly can play its most important part. We are accordingly in agreement with the purpose of the two United States draft resolutions submitted here on 3 November. We favour a serious and immediate effort by the Assembly to formulate proposals on the basis of which a lasting reconciliation might be achieved. Greater Powers and lesser Powers, those directly concerned and those who are not — we must all be prepared to accommodate our interests to the purpose and our views to the realities of the situation. 194. I join in the tributes which have been paid to the devotion to duty of the Secretary-General. In a series of protracted crises, he has had to remove himself austerely from all national considerations and has had to endeavour to guide sovereign States towards peace and harmony. Few men at this time bear a heavier load of both the cares and the hopes of the world.