UN General Assembly
1953

34. Should North Africans then infer that in order to attract such high attention North Africa should import communism or should resort to violence on a large scale? Should the North Africans beget a Ho Chi Minh? Should they consider it unfortunate that Arabs have not been favourable to communism? Should we infer that the right of self-determination, the principle of the consent of the governed, the recommendations of the Assembly-taken with the concurrence of the United States — that all these have been heartily swallowed into the vortex of the cold war? If this is the case in a cold war, what would be the situation in a hot one? Should we conclude that orderly evolution in North Africa through United Nations means is not realistic? 35. Any of these inferences is hard to admit. Admitting the first one would amount, on the part of the United States, to an implicit call for communism and violence. Admitting the second would be a negation of the Charter. Silence on these issues leads nowhere except to serious questioning.