UN General Assembly
1953

2. Our Organization enters upon its future tasks with a change of direction by virtue of the recent appointment of a new Secretary-General. We have admired Mr. Hammarskjold’s efforts in recent months to strengthen the cohesion and morale of the international civil service which is charged with the daily operation of our machinery and the execution of our collective policies. We are confident that he will build constructively on the foundations which his eminent predecessor established during the first seven years of the work of the United Nations. 3. Recent events have diminished the sense of deadlock and frustration which has attended the United Nations^ since its inception. Negotiations to resolve the major causes of international tension are now envisaged by the leaders of the great Powers as a serious and tangible prospect. All our governments and peoples have been inspired by the vision of a new international era, in which the second half of this century would emerge full of peace and abundance after the continuous anguish of its first five decades.