Speeches from 1947

May I congratulate my distinguished Mead and colleague, Mr. Aranha, on his election to the high office of President of this Assembly? In thanking this Assembly ...

On behalf of the Argentine delegation, I should like to refer first to the general problem of the maintenance of peace, and later to the concrete question of th...

This Assembly is meeting at a period in history which can only be described as the half-light between war and peace. Over two years have passed since Japan laid...

The present session of the General Assembly of the United Nations imparts a note of hope and encouragement in the anguished moments in which we live today. The ...

It is now two years since the Second World War ended. During that interval the United Nations has been founded and its Charter states that it is necessary “to s...

A Canadian statement in the general discussion at the opening of the Assembly should, I think, give an account of our stewardship as a Member of the United Nati...

I have the great honour of presenting before this democratic Assembly of the nations of the world, united in the common task of maintaining international peace ...

We are gathered from the four comers of the earth for the second session of the General Assembly of the United Nations to discuss and solve a number of difficul...

Hopes for the success of the United Nations were running very high in the closing days of the first session of the General Assembly. Few of us, if any, left thi...

The Republic of Cuba comes to the General Assembly of the United Nations ready, as always, to offer its unconditional co-operation in anything which may contrib...

The voice of the Dominican Republic, which is raised, not for the first time, in support of mankind’s endeavor to defend peace based on justice, has a moral rig...

Chapter VIII. of the Charter of the United Nations, entitled "Regional Arrangements", was written at San Francisco with a strong sense of reality. It provides t...

In the name of my delegation, permit me to associate myself with the tribute which has been paid to the late Mayor La Guardia. It was my privilege to know him a...

The General Assembly of the United Nations has begun the work of its second session. This is a most solemn occasion and it gives to all of us, as the specially ...

The French delegation joins in the tribute paid to Fiorello La Guardia. France remembers that he was always its friend even in times of adversity. It will treas...

At this very moment, while we are assembled here, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are sending arms and munitions across the Greek frontier with the object of d...

We meet today in a disturbed and unhappy world. Economic dislocations have caused widespread suffering, and there is apprehension that the world might be plunge...

The Government of Iraq which I have the honour to represent before this Assembly, strongly upholds the principles of the United Nations Charter, and is convince...

The Lebanese delegation joins in the expressions of sorrow which have been voiced in the course of this meeting in connexion with the passing of Mr. La Guardia,...

The Liberian delegation wishes to associate itself in the tribute and respect given by other delegations this morning to a great world character, Mr. Fiorello L...