UN General Assembly
1953

162. At the time the resolution was adopted, a justifiable feeling of optimism was reigning in Geneva and in the world at large, arising from the recent signing of the Korean armistice. Later developments, however, are tending to change the hopeful atmosphere which then prevailed and are giving grounds for apprehension that the brief relaxation of international tension which appeared to be setting in last July may be coming to an end. It would be a pity if this eighth session of the Assembly should have to complete its deliberations in the same atmosphere that has hung over the United Nations since 1950.