UN General Assembly
1947

It is purely for reasons of practical expediency that some of the rights of larger bodies are usually assigned to groups of a limited number. But where problems of general interest are concerned, the ideal procedure, of course, should be to submit them for decision to as large and representative a body as is practically possible. When consideration is given to the matter of setting up a standing committee of the General Assembly in which the representatives of all the Member States would take part and which would represent the General Assembly of the United Nations, I doubt if anyone can possibly raise serious objections to such a democratic development and improvement. It is, in our opinion, due to the inadequacies of procedure I have referred to above that we have not been able to find satisfactory solutions to a number of questions, among them the Greek