UN General Assembly
1950

143. What these allegations are worth can best be seen in Mr. Bevin’s speech [283rd meeting]. By way of example, reference may be made to his remark about the putsch in Czechoslovakia, which was really a democratic and constitutional solution of the governmental crisis of 1948. But it is difficult to discuss such matters with Mr. Bevin so long as the Government of the United Kingdom speaks of the democratic solution of the governmental crisis as a putsch, while regarding the fascist revolution brought about by the Munich Agreement, or diktat, as a legal situation. Mr. Bevin accuses the Soviet Union of violating agreements concluded during the war, but everybody knows that it was actually the United States and the United Kingdom which violated the historic agreements of Yalta and Potsdam. Mr. Bevin talks of peace, but makes bellicose declarations here and threatens war.