UN General Assembly
1950

37. This conduct conflicts with the Charter of the United Nations. It conflicts with resolution 290 (IV), headed “Essentials of peace”, adopted at our last session. It has created a great and terrible peril for the rest of the world. 38. But even this conduct has not made war inevitable — we, for our part, do not accept the idea that war is inevitable. But it has lengthened the shadow which war casts over us. This fact cannot be obscured by propaganda which baits the hooks with words of peace, and in doing so profanes the highest aspirations of mankind. 39. There is only one real way the world can maintain peace and security in the face of this conduct. That is by strengthening its system of collective security. Our best hope of peace lies in our ability to make it absolutely plain to potential aggressors that aggression does not succeed. The security of those nations which want peace, and the security of the United Nations itself, demands the strength to prevent further acts of aggression.