UN General Assembly
1947

In the name of my delegation, permit me to associate myself with the tribute which has been paid to the late Mayor La Guardia. It was my privilege to know him and to work under his chairmanship in UNRRA, and I must confess that his passing constitutes a loss for the world. The peoples of the world, by whose will we are gathered here today, have serious apprehensions as to the success of this Organization, to say nothing of the future which awaits humanity itself. Indeed, how far we are from the bright goal that seemed so near at hand when the organizational work of the United Nations was completed at San Francisco, when our labours were hailed as the dawn of victory for the democracies of the world!