UN General Assembly
1964

The appearance of new States on the map of this planet of ours, great tracts of which were only a short while ago still tinted with the one horrible colour of colonialism, and the break-through of these States to the banks of the East River in order to take their places in this now somewhat cramped General Assembly hall, represent one of the most vivid and impressive demonstrations of the revolutionary social and economic changes undergone by the world in this great and unique time in which we live. Although the United Nations was born when the war against Hitler was raging and nazism had just been overthrown, it is now growing up in a period marked by the unprecedented rise of national liberation movements throughout the world and the downfall of the colonial system of imperialism.