UN General Assembly
1969

and technology needed to solve the problem of under-development; and seeing that it has those resources the contrast is striking between the successes and achievements of technology and science and the slow progress of humanity. 122. Certainly we do not regret the success of the new human organ transplants, still less the tremendous achievements of the American astronauts. There has never before been such an impressive revelation of the human intelligence and of the extent of its creative power; but shall the great nations that have triumphed over space be powerless in face of the cruel inequalities here on earth, among men? 123. When I was speaking a moment ago of the special problems of the young States, I was thinking of the peace hoped for by millions of men in various regions of Africa and in the Middle East, still heavy with menace. I might add also South-East Asia, and remark that after the halt in the bombing of North Viet-Nam the withdrawal of non-Viet-Namese troops might give new reason to hope for the