UN General Assembly
1953

2. Around this second issue arise a variety of questions, such as Tunisia, Morocco, the Palestine refugees, apartheid in South Africa and the items related to the development of under-developed countries. Although these questions are varied, they are all the result of the ominous fact that over a thousand million people, about half the human race, still live in under-developed countries and are still subjected in one way or another to destructive foreign domination, economic poverty and exploitation, social instability and cultural frustration. This situation is imperilling the national development of these nations and making it difficult for them to contribute their rightful part, out of their own national genius, to general civilization and culture. These thousand million people are considered to be a part of the free world and are called upon to defend a free world which many of them have not yet discovered.