UN General Assembly
1954

30. The division of Europe into closed groups of States presents a grave danger to peace and to the peaceful coexistence of European peoples, as the experience of the First and Second World Wars has shown. If we draw attention to the lessons of the First and Second World Wars, the reason is that one cannot fail to see in them analogies with events now taking place — particularly those which have recently occurred in Western Germany. 31. The peoples of Europe are well aware that a leading part in the organization of the two world wars was played by German militarism, that same militarism whose rebirth it is planned to hasten by the inclusion of West Germany in the Atlantic Pact. But the peoples of Europe are also very aware that there were real possibilities of checking the forces of reaction and war by applying the principle of collective security. If the Second World War occurred nevertheless, that was precisely because the aggressor succeeded in dividing Europe into military camps.