UN General Assembly
1949

103. The United Nations should not, however, confine its meditations to that aspect alone. It should remember the mistakes it had made in the process of its development, mistakes often due to the fact that it was an agency of international peace, built up by human hands. In order to avoid a repetition of past mistakes, nations must consider future prospects, take stock of their strength and pray the Almighty to increase it, so as to reduce as much as possible the differences and suspicion which separated some States from others. They must do everything in their power to put an end to that so-called cold war which divided nations into hostile camps and which had prevented the strengthening of peace among the nations which had emerged victorious from the Second World War. Failure to sign peace treaties with the enemy nations had left the world in the shadow of war, in a painful period of transition from the Second World War to peace, a situation which made it impossible to say truthfully that the United Nations had, by a just and stable peace, contributed effectively to the strengthening of international order.