UN General Assembly
1960

17. We are witnessing the repetition of the tragic history of the period between the two world wars, when, to the accompaniment of endless arguments in the halls of the Palais de Nations in Geneva, weapons were being forged at a feverish pace in the Ruhr arsenals. In our days, in the course of the disarmament talks, the Western Powers are opening for West German militarists the door to their arsenal of rockets and nuclear weapons. While in the course of the recent Geneva negotiations Western diplomacy was looking for arguments against disarmament, the Bonn "revanchists" issued the well-known memorandum in which they demanded with impudent frankness that the Bundeswehr be equipped as soon as possible with all kinds of atomic and rocket weapons and that universal military conscription be established in the country.