UN General Assembly
1953

143. If we draw up a balance-sheet of the work so far achieved by the United Nations, the result will be satisfactory. It is true that we have not found a solution for all the problems which have been laid before us in the past few years and which are a cause of alarm and disquiet to all peoples. We have contrived, however, to contain aggression and to stem the totalitarian expansion which, if this Organization had not existed, would have continued unchecked its headlong career of domination and annihilation of small countries, as it was able to do in the period immediately following the end of the last war. It is clear that the checking of totalitarian expansion and agreement upon a policy of collective security have not been easy tasks. There have been many difficulties, and on more than one occasion concessions, have had to be made. We cannot discard the possibility that we may have to make further concessions.