UN General Assembly
1946

If this analysis is correct, and perhaps you will agree that it is, the results so far achieved by the United Nations will no longer appear so disappointing. We are living in a difficult world and it would be surprising if the institution which, by its very nature, is set at the hub of the world’s difficulties, could have developed and acted with that perfect efficiency which we should all like it to possess. I do not think that the difficulties surrounding and confronting us could be swept away just by modifying certain of our institutions as if at the touch of a magic wand.