UN General Assembly
1947

If, on the one hand, our world is tragically overshadowed by antagonisms and contradictions, its vast horizons, on die other hand, offer wide vistas of progress and improvement. The present generation utilizes extremely advanced technical methods; application of these methods can create a high standard of living throughout all regions of the world and eliminate misery and poverty. This technical progress already permits us to envisage the advent of a new mankind, highly civilized as we are, but forming, as it were, a single body endowed with a broader conscience and more receptive to the realization of all the aims of the human race. In order that this aspiration be gradually attained, existing antagonisms have only to be conciliated. If the United Nations succeeds in carrying out this task, the most dangerous turning point of our time will have been passed and we may look to the future with the confidence of the traveller who has reached the top of an arduous mountain path and views at last an unlimited reach of smiling plain.