UN General Assembly
1950

39. Can the refusal to admit to the United Nations representatives of the lawful Government of China be regarded as a contribution to world peace? Does the maintenance of the fiction that the emissaries of the Kuomintang represent the Chinese people strengthen our prestige and assist us in our work? The true representatives of the Chinese nation which, under the leadership of the heroic Mao Tse-tung, has achieved its freedom after a hard struggle, must take, their place in our midst. Unfortunately from the very first day of our deliberations, the debate has shown that there are here reactionary dreamers, incorrigible die-hards who would like to arrest the wheel of history and alter the course of events.