UN General Assembly
1957

Allow me to add my personal and my Government's congratulations to the many already tendered to the President on his election to the high office which indeed he so richly deserves. The General Assembly is fortunate that its deliberation in this session will be guided by a statesman of such high calibre and experience. 2. I should also like to say a few words of tribute to the skill and wisdom of his distinguished predecessor, Prince Wan Waithayakon, to whose lot it befell to preside over the last session of the General Assembly at a time when the world had been plunged into one of the worst crises of the last decade.