UN General Assembly
1951

3. The framework exists. Our task this session is to fill in some of the framework. And we must do so at a time when people all over the world, people who thought they had won the right to the blessings of peace by their sacrifices in the last war, are realizing that in the world today the price of peace is high indeed. Those people are asking not only whether the price can be paid, but also whether it is in fact worth paying. 4. We of New Zealand, who have fought aggression far from our shores in the two world wars, and now also in Korea, have no doubt that the price is worth paying. But we believe also that those who are being asked to make heavy sacrifices have the right to demand that there should be some light ahead, some hope for a reduction of the present nightmare tension, some prospect that the burden of armaments, now being carried for a clear and definite purpose, will in time become less necessary.