UN General Assembly
1957

86. In the course of the debate the Prime Minister of Canada expressed the wish that this, the twelfth session of the Assembly, might be known as the disarmament Assembly. Many other speakers have echoed this wish and this hope. But, is it rot tragic that at the twelfth session of the Assembly we should still be talking of hopes for disarmament, twelve years after a war that was characterized by horrors which no human mind could comprehend or envisage. Is it not tragic that forty years after the First World War which was fought under the slogan "the war to end all wars", we of this generation, many of whom witnessed the ravages of both world wars, are still engaged in debating the need and desirability of disarmament? 87. All employ almost the identical terminology. All speak of peace. But this is accompanied by such lack of confidence, by such lack of friendship that one often stops and wonders whether words have retained their original connotation; whether the same word spoken by different representatives really has the same meaning.