UN General Assembly
1949

37. The previous year had been marked by increased interference in the domestic affairs of several States and by open attacks on the principle of national sovereignty. The ideological justification of the United States policy of expansion had found its expression in the organization of so- called European Councils, in idle statements concerning a world government, in the declarations of statesmen who emphasized the providential role of the United States, the country to which God had supposedly assigned the direction of the world and the mission of teaching men the American way of life. 38. The proposal for the inclusion in the agenda of the Assembly, in contradiction of every principle of the United Nations Charter and of the Peace treaties, the item dealing with the so-called defence of religious freedom in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania constituted such an attack on the national sovereignty of small countries. Not only had those countries not been allowed to become Members of the Organization, but a campaign of slander had been unleashed against them.