Speeches from 1948

Mr. BEASLEY stated that part of the long agenda before the General Assembly reflected the serious and complicated divergencies which tended to divide the Powers...

Mr. SPAAK said the speakers who had taken part in the beginning of the general debate had repeatedly stressed the atmosphere of great anxiety in which the Assem...

Mr. COSTA du RELS stated that the third session of the General Assembly of the United Nations had opened in an atmosphere of anxiety and uneasiness. Optimistic ...

Mr. FERNANDEZ said that the United Nations was meeting for the third time in a regular session of the General Assembly to discuss questions of peace, security a...

Mr. KISELEV stated that more than three years had elapsed since the Charter of the United Nations had been signed in San Francisco and later ratified. That Char...

Mr. MACKENZIE KING expressed his particular pleasure in having the opportunity to tell the Government and people of France how deeply the Canadian delegation ap...

Mr. FERNANDEZ stated that Chile was linked to France not only by traditions of friendship but by the even stronger bonds created by admiration for France’s stea...

Mr. WANG Shih-chieh began by expressing his delegation’s gratitude to France for its hospitality. It would have been difficult to find a more suitable place tha...

Mr. URDANETA-ARBELAEZ declared that when the spokesmen of the smaller nations appeared on the rostrum before the Assembly, from where their voices could be hear...

Mr. CLEMENTIS stated that, in connexion with the present session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, there had again appeared commentaries and reflec...

Mr. RASMUSSEN stressed the fact that one of the factors which had helped to prevent world recovery after the war was the poverty as well as the lack of goods in...

Mr. BALAGUER said that it was the first time that the General Assembly of the United Nations had met on the soil of France, the mother of liberty and the cradle...

Mr. VITERI-LAFRONTE recalled that during the six years of the war — which had been referred to with so much certainty as the «last» war — when the whole world w...

KHASHABA Pasha stated that on the occasion of the opening of the third session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Egyptian delegation was eager ...

Mr. CASTRO thanked the French people and Government for the manner in which the United Nations had been received on French soil and expressed the gratitude of h...

Mr. SCHUMAN, after referring to the speech of welcome by the President of the French Republic (136th meeting) said that his country was glad that all the Govern...

Mr. TSALDARIS said that previous speakers had already stressed the gravity of the circumstances in which the present Assembly had met. Indeed, the time had come...

Mrs. PANDIT declared that it was a matter of satisfaction to her delegation that the resent session of the General Assembly was being held in Paris. India had r...

Mr. NOURY-ESFANDIARY thanked the Government of the French Republic on behalf of the Iranian delegation for the generous hospitality kindly extended to it. At th...

Mr. C. MALIK pointed out that, of the thirty-eight substantive items on the provisional agenda (A/585) and supplementary fist (A/629) of the third session of th...