UN General Assembly
1951

The debate has dragged on, and I shall not tax the patience of this august Assembly by making a long statement. I desire merely to express the hopes and fears of a small country. My delegation must, however, join their fellow representatives in according thanks to the people and the Government of France for extending to us their traditional hospitality and in enabling us to conduct our deliberations in this historic city. In return for Trance’s unstinted kindness to the United Nations how nice it would be for the representatives present at this Assembly to come to an accord on controversial issues and sow the seeds of peace at this session so that the sixth Assembly, despite its unpropitious beginning, may go down in history as the Assembly of Peace and for ever associate Paris with peace that has so far been elusive. It would be an appropriate gesture of the United Nations’ gratitude to Paris for its hospitality.