UN General Assembly
1950

86. Up to the present, accordingly, we cannot approach our problem on the assumption that the Soviet Union’s main objective in the United Nations is to preserve the peace. Up to now the United Nations has presented to the world a picture not of co-operation among all its Member States but of a persistent conflict between the Soviet Union and associated countries, on the one hand, and the vast majority of the Members of the Organization on the other. Instead of the one world we looked for, there have been two worlds, and one so far has refused to co-operate with the other except upon its own terms.