UN General Assembly
1960

48. But the presence of the leaders of world opinion must also have a somewhat deeper significance from the sociological point of view. Why, asks the man in the street, are the leaders, the Heads of the great States attending the fifteenth session of the United Nations General Assembly? Is it a mere propaganda stunt? To place such a construction on it would be a gross over-simplification not in keeping with the prestige of the United Nations and of all the great leaders who have come to attend this session. The sympathetic and thoughtful interpretation placed by the peoples of the world on the great gathering of distinguished personalities at the fifteenth session is that they are tired of trying other methods of negotiation and have decided that the United Nations is the proper forum, the right place in which to try to settle the world’s problems.