UN General Assembly
1969

be shamelessly flouted. Totalitarian communism, even though divided and ready to embark on mutual self-destruction on the borders of Asia, has in no way relaxed its hold over nations which aspire to unity and the establishment of a true democracy. The “Prague spring” will soon be no more than the memory of a beautiful rose-bud, withered before it could open out in the sunshine. 61. Racism still continues to flourish in South Africa where, under cover of ideology, ten million black men are confined to subordinate tasks and — let us say it openly — are exploited by a few million white people. A similar situation is now developing in Rhodesia, without any genuine reaction being registered in the rest of the world. 62. For its part, Portugal maintains with impunity the fiction of its African provinces, while preventing the peoples of those provinces from expressing their opinion freely. 63. Finally, as though to crown the edifice and despite all the international conferences and the many meetings of the committees, sub-committees and other organs of UNCTAD,