UN General Assembly
1953

10. The nations are groping for the spirit and the institutions which will enable man to dominate matter. So far, unhappily, it has been impossible to provide either the spirit or the institutions on a universal basis. Therefore some of the nations have developed their own community measures to deter aggression and to give protection to moral values that they cherish. These counter-measures have, by common consent, involved the sharing of facilities, and sometimes the placing of military forces from one country in another country. 11. Soviet leaders have complained of these arrangements. But they should know, and probably they do know, that community arrangements are the least likely to be aggressive. Military force which is with a single nation can be used offensively at the dictation of one government alone, sometimes of one man alone. Military force which is distributed throughout several countries cannot be used effectively unless all of the countries concerned are in agreement. Such agreement would be totally unattainable except for operations responsive to the clear menace of aggression.