UN General Assembly
1960

36. Nothing that we have said excludes the desire for peace and for agreement. On these points we feel as do all other delegations. Who can want anything else? Who can love violence for the sake of violence and reject the use of specific measures to prevent it? To recognize the enemy in a war, including a cold war, and to ascertain his intentions is the principle of wise strategy and, at the same time, the only basis on which peace, even a cold peace, can be established. We want a guaranteed and solid agreement, with adequate precautionary provisions to make it durable and effective. There is usually more bargaining and negotiating between nations which are competing and seeking the same objects, which do not like each other and have fought for a long time, than there is between close friends. Why then should we delude ourselves about others? Why should we misrepresent a bitten reality as a sentimental comedy? To speak of disarmament without control is to misrepresent the problem and to give free scope to preparations for violence on the part of countries which find it convenient to prevent the world observing their movements.