UN General Assembly
1950

93. Full co-operation is still possible if the Soviet Union will accept the responsibilities inherent in membership of the United Nations and substitute for its present policy one of friendly association with other nations; if it will accept the point of view that, although our basic ideas on domestic policy may be different, that fact should not prevent us from working together for one purpose, which the Soviet Union spokesmen say is a purpose to which they are dedicated: that of peace. What is it that prevents them? Nothing that any of us does. Let the Soviet Union state clearly what it is. Let it say why it is it quarantines its own people away from other peoples of the world, as if we or they were diseased. Why does it prevent the free interchange of information and knowledge and the movement of the peoples? Why should it continue to keep its own people in a national strait-jacket?