UN General Assembly
1957

63. There were hopes expressed in the month of June 1957 and earlier that the disarmament talks would be effective. They ended without agreement. It was not entirely a failure, however, the meeting of that Subcommittee. The positions of both sides were brought closer. I think the Sub-Committee must continue to operate. There have been suggestions that its membership should be broadened. We would be in accord with any suggestion to that effect, provided that that step would lead, or even give hopes of leading, to a quicker and better solution of this grave problem. And we go further than that. Canada is prepared to withdraw from the Sub-Committee. It has worked on it from the beginning. It will do anything at all, take any stand whatever, short of compromising its safety and its survival, in order to bring about what must come if mankind is to continue to live - and that is, a measure, and a considerable measure, of disarmament.