UN General Assembly
1948

The people of the Netherlands and of Indonesia, who in the last great conflict had equally suffered the ravages of war and the terrors of occupation by cruel implacable aggressors, viewed that development with the deepest concern. They were especially dismayed about the rapidly deepening rift between their major allies in the struggle. They still felt certain that no unsurmountable conflicts of interest existed between major groups within the United Nations. The peoples united under the Netherlands Crown were convinced that a further splitting of the world into two camps would be equally harmful to both and that a clash of arms could, and therefore must, be avoided. His country was willing and determined to contribute everything in its power to restore a greater degree of harmony between the opposing groups, and a greater freedom from fear to the world, but it insisted at the same time that two fundamental principles be respected upon which its national existence was founded.