UN General Assembly
1948

In spite of those obvious facts, there were attempts to make the USSR and the countries of the new democracies appear responsible for existing strained international relations. Mr. Spaak had been particularly zealous to do so. At the instigation of stronger nations than Belgium, he had described the fear of Western Europe before the danger which allegedly was looming from the East. Fear was an evil counsellor, particularly if it was an unreal fear. There was serious reason for calmly-thinking people to believe that the fear which was being evoked from the rostrum of the United Nations might be nothing but a « smoke curtain» to conceal the true plans of the Western bloc. Mr.