UN General Assembly
1951

119. I would also recall that during the general debate a number of representatives, including Mr. Pearson, the head of the Canadian delegation, who of course is also at the same time chairman of the highest council of the aggressive Atlantic bloc, endeavoured to thwart our proposals for convening a world disarmament conference by asking: “Why wait until June? Is not the General Assembly itself a disarmament conference?” 120. These representatives will perhaps now be quite satisfied that we do not wish to postpone the reduction of armaments until the world conference which will have to draft practical measures but are proposing, as a supplement to our proposal for a world conference to consider the reduction of armaments, that a reduction by one-third of the armaments of the five Powers and the prohibition of atomic weapons should be discussed at the present session of the General Assembly.