UN General Assembly
1951

65. The tripartite proposal does not refer at all to military bases. You know, even under the strongest microscope you won’t find a trace of them, no trace at all of military bases on foreign territory. But in the meanwhile these bases are being established month after month by the organizers of the aggressive Atlantic bloc, although they do not mention the fact, and although the issue of the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic weapons is closely connected with it. They cannot, however, be convinced of this.