UN General Assembly
1960

76. What I also find particularly striking about this proposal is that it is not really new. It appears to be a revised edition of what the delegation of the USSR — and the other great Powers at that time too — pressed at San Francisco fifteen years ago. New Zealand was on that occasion one of the principal opponents of the plan put forward by the sponsoring Powers to write into the Charter a provision for deputies — as they were then proposing — of status virtually equal with that of the Secretary-General. This plan was to secure to the great Powers — as would be done if the Charter was altered today in the way proposed — the political control of the senior positions in the Organization.