UN General Assembly
1963

110. One might ask whether in a world which intends peacefully to coexist, there is still room for the "cowboy and Indian" sort of stories and whether consideration should not be given to the need for pruning the syllabi of our school systems, throwing out such education garbage as the story of Robert Clive, where the yardstick for fame and greatness is the ability and craftiness of one man to hoodwink and humiliate another race. A tremendous amount of introspection on the international and national scale right down to the individual is called for to determine whether the education of Member States is properly oriented. The sort of United Nations programme that has been suggested above will, it is contended, enable movie and television producers, writers and news publishers, to realize that the "pen is still mightier than the sword" or, in modern parlance, that television can work greater havoc than the atom bomb. The proper use of publicity material and mass media is the quickest way of ending the cold war and of creating that spirit of co-operation and respect for humanity that is so sadly lacking today.