UN General Assembly
1946

It should not be forgotten that the success of this great enterprise depends especially upon the kind of reception accorded to the refugees in their new homes. This factor is of outstanding importance, for it will greatly influence the lives of the refugees in their country of adoption. Subject to this reservation, Egypt expresses its firm desire to co-operate with the new Refugee Organization, and its hope that the latter will be invested with the most extensive powers so that it may discharge its important duties. We believe that, in order to secure more effective co-operation, the new Organization should centralize within itself all governmental and private activities which bear upon the problem of refugees. If for our United Nations the Charter is the letter, it is world public opinion which is the spirit. Of this world public opinion General Eisenhower recently declared: “I believe fervently in mass public opinion, and, if only it were mobilized in favour of the, peace we all want, there would never be an other war.”