UN General Assembly
1946

I wish to conclude these remarks by praising the efforts of the good men and women and true, like Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Aristide Briand, Prince Nikolas, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, my hero and second greatest man in American history, Winston Churchill, General de Gaulle, Edith Cavell, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the heroes of Stalingrad and particularly Marshal Zhukov, the heroes of Arnhem, the heroes of “D” Day, of Leyte, all those who fought on the home and battle fronts, those promising youths and maidens who laid down their lives as a never to be forgotten sacrifice for peace. They, both the living and the dead, are crying out loudly for peace. Shall we fail them on account of selfishness, on account of national self-interest, on account of rivalry, on account of unwillingness to understand each other, on account of the suppression of truth, on account of unwillingness to give and to take? I do not believe that the combined intelligence of the world, as it worked together in war and won, cannot work together in peace and win.