UN General Assembly
1960

124. What do I mean by lingering in the past? It is natural that many new peoples should have unhappy, and in some cases, bitter memories. It is understandable that many of them should feel a sense of grievance against their former rulers and should view their present plight as the legacy of the past. It is to them a painful paradox that, while some countries have problems of surpluses and over-production, they should have been left behind in poverty. As they look about them at their lands, rich with minerals and vegetation-gold and diamonds, bauxite, iron and copper, cocoa and cotton, sugar and rubber — they must come to the conclusion that it was not God's will that they should be hungry.