UN General Assembly
1952

91. To turn to the work of the Disarmament Commission, organized at the sixth session of the General Assembly [resolution502 (VI)], there can be no doubt that the majority of the members of that Commission, headed by the United States, have directed all their efforts to preventing any real disarmament and any reduction of armaments, and to preventing the prohibition of atomic weapons, and instead have done all they can to legalize the further growth of armaments and give the United States the opportunity to continue accumulating stock piles of atomic bombs. It is indeed impossible to take seriously, as measures for the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic weapons, the proposals of this Anglo-American group for what they call a progressive disclosure and verification of armaments and armed forces in the famous five stages; these proposals are obviously calculated to delay the adoption of any decisions which might be even to the smallest degree effective, and truly designed to bring about a reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic weapons. Nor is it possible to take seriously the proposal of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, that numerical limits should be set on the armed forces of the various States, without anything being done to establish the relations between the air, naval and land forces; for the determination of such relations is an important element in any plan which is really calculated to bring about a reduction of armaments.