Session 7 Speeches

The year that has elapsed since the last session of the General Assembly has brought no constructive elements to the consolidation of world peace. On the contra...

This year we meet again in an atmosphere of mounting crisis. The maintenance of peace and security is our common purpose: yet we have not so far succeeded in ac...

I speak to you today as the representative of a country which has evolved in the Short span of a decade from a state of dependency to independence. This evoluti...

Seven years have elapsed since the Second World War came to an end. Yet the clouds of war still hang over our heads, barring the rays of peace from penetrating ...

It is difficult to remember a time when the United Nations confronted greater dangers to itself and to the cause of universal peace than those which crowd in up...

Every year since this Organization came into existence, the confidence in it of the peoples of the world has been put to a very severe test. Lofty principles ha...

We have convened for the seventh annual session of the United Nations General Assembly in these new, elaborate and magnificent structures provided and dedicated...

Seven years have passed since the establishment of the United Nations, and we are now foregathered in our new magnificent home. Does the fact that we possess a ...

I feel that I should announce that although my name is Clifton Webb, I am not the screen star. By all accounts, he is “Sitting Pretty” down in Hollywood, and fo...

We sincerely regret Mr. Trygve Lie’s decision to resign his office of Secretary-General, which he has filled with so much credit and distinction through a perio...

Panama, its people and its Government, which I have the honour to represent here, comes to Ibis seventh session with a message of brotherhood to the governments...

It is hardly possible to take part in this opening debate of the seventh session of the General Assembly without referring first of all to the armed conflict wh...

The sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations refrained from discussing the subject of Korea, in order that a political debate should not inte...

When, after a bloody and heroic struggle against fascism, the nations of the world decided to maintain peace by a common endeavour and to prevent the outbreak o...

I shall venture to make a few remarks on this occasion on the international system of arbitration, which is the subject of a report to the current session of th...

The United Nations Charter was born with the emergence of a new world. Mankind, ravaged by two world wars, was yearning for quiet, for progress and for the deve...

One of the General Assembly’s tasks at its seventh session is to review the work done by the Organization during the past year and to determine the course of it...

First of all, permit me to take this opportunity to associate the South African delegation with the tributes which have been paid from this rostrum to those who...

As the seventh session of the General Assembly takes up its work, important and complex questions of vital concern to millions of human beings, of whole peoples...

I address the United Nations Assembly today for the second time since I returned to take part in international affairs. Last time we met in Paris in a temporary...