UN General Assembly
1951

104. What was Mr. Vyshinsky’s reply to this three-Power disarmament proposal? He could hardly sleep, he said, it made him laugh so much. It was so funny. It makes one wonder whether this pathetic merriment does not conceal an uneasy conscience. When he stopped laughing, Mr. Vyshinsky produced a really serious proposal of his own. I should like to read the first paragraph of that proposal which is a follows [A/1944]: “The General Assembly declares participation in the aggressive Atlantic Bloc and the creation by certain States, and primarily by the United States of America, of military, naval and air bases in foreign territory incompatible with membership of the United Nations.”