UN General Assembly
1963

125. I take pleasure in being able to announce that the Netherlands Government, desirous of demonstrating its faith in the peace-restoring- powers of the United Nations, has just informed the Secretary-General that it has now placed a contingent of the Marine Corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy at the disposal of the Organization. This Corps is an élite corps and has a centuries-old tradition of service. It formed part of the first international police force employed by the League of Nations, some thirty years ago; to supervise the peaceful solution, by means of a plebiscite, of one of the problems left over from the first world war.