UN General Assembly
1952

76. I am sure that, given a certain period of peaceful labour, reorganization and reconstruction, the almost unbelievably ill-equipped organization, from the technical point of view, left behind in the ex-dependent countries, could be transformed into means just sufficient to fulfil the primary requirements of a simple national life. Then the political renaissance in Asia could develop itself into forces which, with all the other forces in the world, could give a more solid foundation to the United Nations.