UN General Assembly
1954

41. There are still plenty of dangers to peace. Apart from divided Austria, divided Germany and divided Korea there are difficulties in carrying out the Indo-China settlement. There is the present situation off the coast of China. There are the tragic differences between Israel and the Arab States. The past year has been one of almost unparalleled natural disasters; floods, earthquakes and typhoons have caused so much loss to so many. And the grim spectres of hunger, poverty and disease still range over much of the world’s surface and trouble the conscience of mankind. From time to time there comes to our ears the distant rumble of one nuclear explosion after another, from one side of the iron curtain or the other.