Session 2 Speeches

We are assembled here at a solemn hour for the human race, and the solemnity of the hour is not due to our presence in this hall, but rather to the anxiety and ...

In the name of my delegation I should like to associate myself with those speakers who have paid such a moving tribute to the memory of that great man, Fiorello...

As one who had the inestimable privilege of working alongside him for a considerable period of time, I desire to associate myself, my delegation and my country ...

The representatives of Peru have come here again with the same fears, but with renewed hope. Since the day when our country affixed its signature to the San Fra...

I bring to this Assembly the greetings and cordial felicitations of His Excellency, the President of the Philippines, General Manuel Roxas. We are confronted du...

For some time prior to the beginning of the present session,. statesmen and the Press have been indulging in comments on the importance of the General Assembly’...

The eyes of the world are focused upon us today, the result of the many grave problems with which we are dealing and of the unhappiness and instability the worl...

First, may I be permitted to associate myself with the tribute paid to the late Fiorello La Guardia, the former Director-General of that humanitarian organizati...

Sweden entered the United Nations after the end of the general debate in the second part of last year’s session. This is therefore the first time that the Swedi...

It would be superfluous for me to echo here the clamour for peace heard from every pulpit and tribune in the world and featured in every issue of the Press all ...

Aware of the necessity of speedy resumption of work in the committees, I had decided not to speak at this stage of the deliberations of the General Assembly. Bu...

The basic question upon which, in the opinion of the delegation of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the attention of the General Assembly and of the Uni...

During the recent war, many of the nations represented in this Assembly sacrificed their blood and treasure for a common cause. There was a spirit of co-operati...

A year has passed since the first session of the General Assembly. It is necessary to look back on the path which has been travelled during this interval, to an...

The Assembly will not expect me at this time to follow in any detail the subject which the representative of Syria has just discussed with such passion and erud...

I have been asked by the President of the United States to extend to you the cordial greetings of the Government and people of the United States, as well as his...

Not long ago, in October 1946, I had the honour of addressing you from this same rostrum. I had left the United States at the joyous and stirring moment of peac...

We have hardly reached the second anniversary of the inception of the United Nations and already its highest deliberative body has assembled for the fourth time...

The United Nations, and particularly those among them which directly experienced the horrors of war and spared no effort to gain the victory, believed — and sti...