UN General Assembly
1950

97. I must now turn to the problems of disarmament and the control of atomic energy which have been raised. No country has in the past played a greater part in endeavouring to bring about world-wide agreement on disarmament than my own. One of my predecessors between the two wars, Mr. Arthur Henderson, strove very hard to achieve this end at the last great Disarmament Conference in Geneva. But he could not get the conditions which would make it possible to bring about disarmament. There were already factions growing up which, notwithstanding their talk of peace, really wanted war. And what are the conditions needed for disarmament? It cannot be dealt with merely by a resolution of the United Nations, as proposed by the Soviet Union representative [A/1376].