UN General Assembly
1968

38. Moreover, the Security Council cannot afford to set adrift in international waters so many States, for the acceptance of whose membership it bears primary responsibility, and leave them to their own devices in a cannibalistic international society where appetite grows by what it feeds on. It should “be vigilant of international freedom and liberty and take prompt measures, if not to prevent bush fires from being lighted, at least to quench the fires at their birth and not let them spread and consume ever-widening areas of the earth and their peoples, while suffering itself to be borne on a flood of eloquence through uncertain waters.