UN General Assembly
1964

119. In the short span of twenty years, the United Nations also has created a versatile range of international agencies which are surveying resources, distributing food, improving agriculture, purifying water, caring for children, controlling disease, training technicians — carrying on research, planning, programming, investing, teaching, administering thousands of projects in hundreds of places, so that, to quote the Charter, "we the peoples of the United Nations" may enjoy "social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". These activities are now being financed at the impressive level of some $350 million a year. 120. In its brief life the United Nations has also taken major strides toward creating an open community of science — for the peaceful use of atomic energy, for the application of technology to industry, agriculture, transport and communications and health, for a world-wide weather reporting system, for shared research in many fields, and for co-operative regulation of the growing list of tasks — life frequency allocation and aerial navigation — which cannot even be discussed except on the assumption of international co-operation and organization.