UN General Assembly
1948

Mr. VAN ROIJEN observed that the Netherlands delegation was particularly happy to attend the present session of the General Assembly in the proud and beautiful capital of France, the country which had rightly been called immortal and which was the birthplace of so many principles regarding the respect for the dignity and liberty of the individual. The present session of the General Assembly was meeting under grave and disquieting circumstances. Hardly three years had elapsed since the din of battle had died down after one of the most devastating wars of modem history, and already the clatter of arms was being beard anew. It would be futile and unwise to close one’s ears to those ominous sounds.