UN General Assembly
1969

peace and know the joy of living in security after more than a quarter of a century of heroic strife. 11. Did not a great thinker once say that the greatness of a nation is not measured by the amount of blood it has shed but by the number of human problems it has solved? 12. We are convinced that the American people, which, through its creative initiatives, its courage and its genius succeeded in solving formidable problems relating to its own nationhood, such as the Civil War, a people which contributed, in co-operation with the heroic Red Army and the other allied forces, to the crushing of nazism and fascism, will also know how to act like the great nation postulated by the author of my quotation, and will find an honourable and just solution to the agonizing problem of Viet-Nam, to the utmost satisfaction of all mankind, which is at present living in a state of distress and profound anxiety. The initiative already taken, the measures and intentions announced from this very rostrum by President