UN General Assembly
1962

91, This, of course, is no new situation. Since the Second World War, with shorter or longer periods of respite, the world has become accustomed to living in a permanent state of crisis. The days of September 1961, when we opened the sixteenth session, seemed even darker. At that time, too, the question of Berlin was in an acute stage, but there was also the Congo crisis; we were on the eve of the explosion of the fifty-megaton bomb, and the whole world was mourning the death of one of the most selfless servants of the United Nations.