UN General Assembly
1952

78. It is true, of course, that these major problems to which I have referred are in the main the responsibility primarily of the great Powers, but when they are placed before the United Nations they become our common concern. It is then that the aggregate of wisdom, of diplomacy and of statesmanship in this Organization is invoked in order to seek solutions and settlements, in the absence of which international relations continue to be charged with dangerous tensions. And it is in order that this fundamental task may be rendered less impossible than it would appear to be today that we should guard against unhealthy practices, including the abuse of this rostrum for the purpose of making speeches designed not so much to seek solutions or to bridge differences as to derive benefits of a purely propaganda nature. It would be wrong, I think, to draw the analogy of the United Nations being the town meeting of the world too closely if by that we permit the Organization to be exploited for, purely partisan political ends.