UN General Assembly
1961

31. While persistent efforts are being deployed, as I described above, to unite and to create a new sense of solidarity and co-operation, others are being exerted to separate one people from another and, within the same nation, to estrange one group from another. To achieve the latter aim, various means, ranging from political propaganda to economic sanctions, have been and are being used. In certain cases force may be applied, which may lead anywhere, from local disturbances to seditious movements. At places where conditions are particularly favourable and national dissensions reach a high pitch internal struggles may be encouraged and the rebellious side may get prompt and adequate support, ranging from arms, equipment, cadres, technicians and money. The case in point, as you all know, is Laos which, from being the scene of an innocuous internal strife, has developed into a significant international problem. I may add that, while I am speaking—at this very moment—battles are raging in the Republic of Viet-Nam between the force of freedom and the force of disruption.