UN General Assembly
1962

34. I come now to a very important fact. It is significant that it was only ten days after the communique had been issued that the Chairman of the Special Committee for the first time denied having been associated with the communique — and then only when he was questioned by reporters on his departure from South Africa. Meanwhile, of course, he had seen the local newspapers, which were full of the news and were fully reporting the terms of the communique; and he also knew that it had been issued as a press release by the United Nations Office of Public Information at New York. He also knew that the Vice-Chairman had reported on the communique at an informal meeting of the Special Committee for South West Africa in Now York.