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Herrera Báez

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first: 1957-09-24
most recent: 1966-09-24
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“The culmination of this effort is the Trujillo Campaign for Total Literacy, the effectiveness of which is demonstrated by the fact that, although the illiteracy index in 1950 was 56,80 per cent, it has today been reduced to 33.9 per cent. That is why Mr. R. Barón Castro at the Third Ibero-American Congress on Education, held at Ciudad Trujillo in October and November 1957, stated on behalf of the Executive Board of UNESCO that illiteracy in the Dominican Republic had decreased sharply. 38. As regards health and social security, there are over 134 hospitals, maternity homes, sanatoria, and private clinics in all parts of the Republic. There are thirty-two dietetic and child nutrition establishments, and savings institutions and educational co-operatives have been organized in eighty establishments. 39.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“In order to give a rough idea of the stage reached by Dominican education in recent times, it is sufficient to point out that, while our population has doubled in the last twenty-two years, primary school facilities during the same period have been increased elevenfold. There are 491,000 pupils registered in country and city schools, 10,080 teen-agers attending secondary schools and 21,000 being trained in vocational schools. The University of Santo Domingo, whose glorious tradition dates back to 1538, the year of its foundation, and which played so outstanding a role during the American colonial era, has today a registration of more than 4,000 pupils and has seven faculties and five specialized institutes or schools.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Land distribution statistics show that between 1935, when the Dominican agrarian reform programme was begun, and 1958, more than 4 million "tareas” were distributed among 115,827 farmers. The results of this agrarian reform can be better appreciated when it is considered that the annual production of the agricultural groups which before 1930 was only worth $75,000, in the last seven-year period reached $51 million, to the exclusive benefit of the farmers, who in 1953 obtained exclusive ownership of their lands in accordance with Act No. 3589, dated 27 June of that year. 37.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“In more than one Latin American country, agrarian reform is one of the highest aspirations of social progress. If the Dominican Republic has today succeeded in multiplying the 1935 national budget of about $9 million by fifteen and the indexes of Dominican per caput income by a similar amount, it may be affirmed that this state of affairs is the result of vast agrarian reforms achieved in our country by means of a series of measures beginning with the parcelling of the land, the distribution of seeds and farm equipment, vocational schools, rural medical care, construction of irrigation canals representing an investment of more than $27 million and 2,500 kilometres long with an irrigable capacity of more than 2,500,000 “tareas”, that is, about 154,000 hectares, experimental farming stations, the construction of communications, and, lastly, the establishment of banking institutions specialized in financing agricultural and industrial undertakings.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“In 1936, our territorial boundaries were fixed by the Additional Boundary Protocol, supplemented by our policy of "Dominicanization" of the frontier; and in 1947, at a time when we were compelled to incur considerable expenditures for defence in order to confront a subversive coalition, we completely redeemed the Dominican international debt with the payment of $9,401,855. Economic, social and cultural indexes register the progressive development achieved by successive administrations under the same unified political direction — and the following positive results have been achieved. 36. As economic matters have acquired greater importance in the deliberations of the major inter-American conferences, one of the problems which has rightly been considered as fundamental .in any scientific economic planning is the problem of land tenure.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“With the extent of our national territory undetermined because of century-long failure to solve the boundary problem, with the collapse of our financial structure and the ensuing bankruptcy and compromising of our national sovereignty, with our population decimated by endemic diseases which undermined its productive capacity, sunk in the depths of ignorance and existing precariously in a primitive economy, the Dominican nation had to face a battle with lost time which required an intense effort of political unity in order to ensure the fullest participation of all Dominicans in the fight for riches, well-being and progress. 35. It is obvious that under those conditions we could hardly be a factor of international co-operation.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“What is certain is that during the first decades of this century it became obvious that we in the Dominican Republic had to overcome the economic, social and cultural prostration caused by our troubled history and that a programme of national recuperation must be heroically undertaken and implemented. Until 1930, our history was shaped by the incongruity between the principles set forth in our Constitutional Charter and the reality of underlying economic and social conditions.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The reproach would certainly be justified if it could be shown that the period of nearly three decades in which that party has been in power was a period in which the Dominican nation had made no progress, a period of regression, backwardness and decadence in the life of the Dominican people. We realize that every Government is born with its historical responsibilities and that it is precisely the regime whose actions are inspired by its consciousness of those responsibilities which will endure, for in political affairs no form of government can be maintained in a vacuum or can prosper in negation or if it is incapable of fulfilling its people’s desires and demands. 34.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“This individual role of each State in furthering United Nations purposes is laid down in Article 56, which forms part of one of the most remarkable chapters of the United Nations Charter — Chapter IX, relating to international economic and social co-operation — and which makes clear the obligation of all Member States to take both joint and separate action to achieve the objectives set forth in that Chapter. 33. There exists a line of propaganda, based on deliberate and crass ignorance of present-day conditions in the Dominican Republic, which maliciously, represents my country’s Government as violating basic constitutional standards with regard to human rights. According to this same propaganda we ought also to apologize for the length of time the political party which guides the destinies of the Dominican Republic has been in power.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The Charter recognizes in Article 1, paragraph 4, that one of the Organization’s purposes is to serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of common ends, and it follows that efforts must be made first of all within the nations themselves to attain the principal objectives of the United Nations and particularly those relating to economic, social and cultural development and the protection of human rights and of fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of race, sex, language or religion.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“This process is giving effect to one of the highest goals of the United Nations, and my Government, which endeavours to establish friendly relations with countries where this national consciousness is awakening — as was shown by the recent exchange of visits of high officials of the Government of the Dominican Republic and of the Republic of Liberia — views such aspirations with sympathy, while maintaining at all times the balanced and conciliatory stand it has always taken in the discussion of questions concerning the transition from a non-self-government or international trusteeship to statehood and independence. 32. I should like to refer now to another aspect of the Dominican Government’s policy of co-operation with the United Nations, that of this polity’s repercussions at the national level.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Our participation in UNICEF dates back to the establishment of that great instrument for humanitarian action, to which we have made contributions totalling $390,000; and last month we contributed a further $20,000 for the continued support of its programmes. 30. We have also maintained regular and substantial participation in the technical assistance programme of the United Nations. 31. One of the most striking features of the present century in international relations has been the emergence of new States in the international community and in the United Nations. My Government and country are not indifferent to the movement which in Asia and Africa is initiating a process similar to that which in the nineteenth century culminated in the emergence of the American States as part of the international community.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“I am happy to state that it will continue this policy and will support at the present session any measure that will ensure the effectiveness of this important instrument for the maintenance of peace and collective security. 28. The Dominican Republic has also made substantial contributions to other United Nations activities directed to urgent humanitarian ends, and has for example contributed a total sum of $239,325 for the assistance of refugees, through the various agencies concerned, first the Inter-governmental Committee on Refugees, later the International Refugee Organization and more recently the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. 29.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The policy of the Dominican Republic is based on the conviction that the United Nations constitutes an indispensable instrument in the evolution of international relations towards the establishment of a truly international society. Relations between States in the world today would be inconceivable without a universal organization of the scope of the United Nations. If it did not exist it would have to be created. Its existence at the present time constitutes one of the best guarantees for the rational conduct of international affairs. 27. My Government is deeply interested in all efforts at the international level to ensure the most effective possible implementation of collective security; it has supported the United Nations Emergency Force and has contributed its proportional share towards the maintenance of that Force since 1957.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Such is the importance of communications in the life of the international community that any measure to restrict or suspend them by the individual and arbitrary decision of a State is an act of such gravity that it might be considered a violation of Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter of the United Nations, since such action is an enforcement measure that can only be validly taken by the competent organs of the international community, such as the Security Council of the United Nations under Article 41 of the Charter. 26. The co-operation of the Dominican Republic with the United Nations is expressed in our direct collaboration with the Organization and with those regional and specialized agencies of which we are a member, as well as in our national policy.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“May I say that my country fully shares that concern. If there is one field in which our interdependence as nations is abundantly clear, it is in the field of communications, which, of course, include maritime as well as aerial, radio and telephone communications. 25. It has been said that any material or intellectual interchange between States and the inhabitants of States presupposes means of communication. The right of communication is therefore from the sociological point of view the sine qua non of international life.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“For all these reasons, the great problem which underlies the various items on our agenda, and which the great Powers in particular will have to consider in exploring the possibilities of agreements to advance the cause of peace, is the creation of a climate of confidence and a real clarification of intentions and, objectives, going far beyond the mere dogmatic affirmations of a belief in peace not borne out by the facts, My delegation sincerely hopes that the exchanges of views which have taken place between two great Powers in whose hands the fate of the world largely rests may prove successful and not be as fruitless as the so-called "Geneva spirit" of 1955. 24. Some of the speakers who have preceded me at this rostrum have underlined the importance of the observance by all States of the principle of freedom of communication.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“If international public opinion is a factor of importance in international relations today, it is here in the General Assembly of the United Nations that it is acquiring growing powers of persuasion and greater influence over the destiny of the world. 22. It is in this Assembly, where newly created nations come as sovereign States to solemnize, as it were, their new status, that we should vigorously and clearly proclaim our belief that the sovereignty and independence of States are sacrosanct and that only through respect for the dignity of these prerogatives can international co-operation and progress towards the ultimate goals of the United Nations be achieved. 23.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The Government of the Dominican, Republic believes that it can best contribute to the cause of peace by strengthening its internal and external security, opposing any act of aggression, consolidating its traditional alliances with the great Powers of the free world, and supporting the fundamental aims of the United Nations, which constitute the best guarantee of the peaceful co-existence of all nations. 21. It has been frequently said that peace and international security are not a monopoly or exclusive responsibility of the great Powers. Certainly the smaller nations must not be content with playing the role of a Greek chorus.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“International communism, by systematically extending its influence in a manner disturbing to the orderly progress of the international community, is the most important factor in the political tensions that divide the world into what have hitherto been two irreconcilable camps. It is this danger, this constant threat of aggression, that has given rise to the arms race, a psychology that makes the positions of the two sides mutually incomprehensible, and the allocation to national defence needs of resources that could be better employed in promoting the great economic, social, cultural and humanitarian aims of the United Nations. 20.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“In the opinion of my delegation and country international tension has its roots in the' fear and mistrust implanted in the minds of the free nations of the world by the onslaught of a militant and dogmatic ideology whose real danger lies not in its economic and social methods or its nihilistic attitude to certain spiritual values which we cannot renounce, but in its subversive tendencies, in its revolutionary and uncompromising solutions of political and social problems, insofar as it seeks to impose them on the rest of the world, and in the persistent threat it offers to the independence and sovereignty of States.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Whatever the importance of the various items handed down to us from previous sessions of the Assembly, including some of the questions most nearly affecting the cause of peace, such as disarmament, the development of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, it is evident that the arms race is an effect or a symptom rather than the cause of the tensions in international life today.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“But, although that approach might seem equally applicable to every question covered by the Charter, there are some cases in which it would not attain the desired end. For example, in the case of matters that bear directly on the existence of a State, its political system and its social and economic organization, such efforts would fail and would moreover be contrary to the principle of the Organization embodied in Article 2, paragraph 7, of the Charter. 19.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The pacific settlement of international disputes, the development of respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the control and ultimate elimination of the armaments race, the solution of problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, the promotion of social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom — these are the conditions that must be satisfied if we are to attain the goals to which mankind’s hopes for peace and security are directed. 18. In the case of each of these conditions of peace and security, the means to be employed depend on the goal to be attained. In the case of some of them it is clear that the full exercise of the functions of the United Nations organs is the only appropriate approach.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“Belaúnde, with his brilliant intelligence, his scholarship, backed by solid religious and moral convictions and his moving eloquence, an outstanding champion in each of the phases in the history of our Organization which he so admirably described in his speech of acceptance [795th meeting]. May I add my good wishes for the success of his work in the high office he now occupies. 16. Once again the General Assembly is meeting to review what has been achieved and to initiate new efforts in the cause of peace and collective security, the most serious and urgent problem of our time and the "raison d’être" of the United Nations. 17. In its exposition of the function of the main organs and in guiding principles of the United Nations, the Charter clearly established what might be described as the factors of peace and international security.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“15. I should like first to express my personal satisfaction and that of my delegation at the unanimous election of Mr. Belaúnde as President of this session of the General Assembly. His election not only recognizes his personal influence, which has been felt in the United Nations ever since it was founded at San Francisco, but is also well-deserved tribute to his country, which has contributed so greatly to the development of international law and culture in America and as such is a source of profound satisfaction to all the Latin American countries. Our ideals of peace and justice in international relations have found in Mr.”
1959-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 14 (1959)
“The delegation of the Dominican Republic earnestly hopes that the United Nations will not disappoint the hopes mankind has placed in it and that, during the present session, we shall be able to make a real and constructive contribution to the easing of international tension and come to realize — even those of us who see international relations as a dialectical process — that one of the most absurd contradictions and one which we all have an equal duty to seek to resolve is the paradox of a world becoming increasingly interdependent, yet at the same time driven by fears, antagonisms and rivalries absorbing energies which should rather be directed towards raising the general standard of living of all peoples.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The Government of the Dominican Republic will co-operate to the utmost in the execution of plans already drawn up for the so-called "Operation Pan-American", but it considers that this programme should also provide for the elimination of certain restrictive agreements resulting in discrimination against the Dominican Republic's most important export product in the United States market. My Government feels that there should be no permanent quota restrictions which discriminate against certain countries. This is a problem which affects not only the Dominican Republic but also the great majority of Latin American countries exporting agricultural and mineral raw materials; it is, therefore, a problem of general concern, and should be included in any programme designed to bring about a real inter-American economic unity. 71.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“order to ensure a steady increase in the rate of economic and social development of the Dominican people is best reflected in the Dominican Government's five-year plan, launched on 16 August 1958, which calls for the investment of some $650 million in economic development and in the expansion of health and educational services. 70. As the Dominican Republic's economy is primarily an export economy, the rate of our economic development depends very largely on tire existence of favourable terms of trade.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Between 1947 and 1956 the country's consumption of electricity rose to 232 million kilowatt-hours, the increase in 1955-1956 alone being 37,300,000 kilowatts. 68. One of the Government's largest undertakings at present, under the programme for the electrification of the entire country and for the improvement of the irrigation system, which has given such an impetus to agricultural development in the Republic, is the building of the Tavera dam which, when completed, will irrigate 31,400 hectares and will have a capacity of 150 million cubic metres of water. This project is being financed entirely by Dominican capital. 69. This mobilization of the country's natural re-sources and manpower in.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“This result has been secured through an exceptional increase in the area under cultivation; national production for export, the value of which in 1935 did not exceed $15 million a year, in 1957 reached the highest figure in the country's history — $161 million. 66. With regard to industry, as a result of the Government's policy of stimulating development, there were, in 1957, 2,993 industrial establishments representing a total invested capital of more than $206 million. Economic development policy is based on the provision of absolute guarantees for domestic and foreign capital investments. 67. Great advances have been made in the electrification of the country since this source of power was nationalized. The Government has invested $13 million in the development of hydro-electric-installations.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Barón Castro, in addressing the third Latin American Education Congress at Ciudad Trujillo in January 1957, on behalf of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that illiteracy had shown a lightning decline in the Dominican Republic. This year the Republic's education budget will be more than $11 million, which is a higher figure than that of the country's entire budget before the year 1936. 65. The extent of the Republic's economic progress can be estimated from its agricultural production and industrial development. As a result of the advances made in both these areas, the per caput income of the Republic has risen in 1957 from $174 to $229.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“In order to give a rough indication of the growth of education in the Republic in recent years I need only mention that, whereas the population has doubled in the last twenty-two years, primary schools have multiplied their capacity eleven times during the same period. Altogether, 491,158 pupils are enrolled at schools in urban and rural areas; 10,080 adolescents are attending secondary schools and 21,000 are undergoing training in vocational schools, while 4,034 young people are receiving higher education at our university. The most spectacular effort has been the Trujillo universal literacy campaign, whose effectiveness can be judged by the fact that whereas the illiteracy figure in 1950 was 56.8 per cent, it has now fallen to 33.9 per cent. There was, therefore, every justification for the statement made by Mr.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Among the more important social security advances is legislation introducing compulsory life insurance for all civil servants and government employees earning less than $400 a month. 63. One interesting item in cur legislation for the protection of the needy classes is Act No. 4,107, promulgated in 1955, which provides for the payment of State allowances to the children of persons serving prison sentences, if they are without means of subsistence. 64. The Dominican Republic's achievements in the sphere of education clearly demonstrate that government activities in our country are firmly rooted definitely and unquestionably in the people.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Our social policy protecting the working classes is reflected not only in our accession to the more important International Labour Organisation conventions but also in the incorporation of the standards laid down in these conventions in our own labour legislation. Our minimum wage regulations are at present being amended in accordance with a plan recommended by the United Nations Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, the objective being to ensure that the level of wages of the lower-paid working classes rises gradually in step with the expansion of the national economy and thus to preclude inflationary pressures or disturbances likely to make the continuous operation of undertakings uneconomic.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Our territorial boundaries were fixed by the frontier agreement of 1936 and the gradual economic, social and cultural development brought about by the various Governments which have ruled the country under the same continuing political leadership has made possible such results as the following. In 1930 the country's entire public health budget was no more than $160,000. Today the budget of this important government service is some $8,062,000; it has thus multiplied more than fifty times. Whereas in 1930 we had eight hospitals with 400 beds, we now have fifty-one hospitals with 7,000 beds, some of the hospitals having a greater capacity than all the hospitals in the country together in 1930. The malaria eradication programme is reaching a decisive phase, with a marshalling of health resources never before seen in our history. 62.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The limits of our national territory were still undefined owing to the failure to solve the age-old frontier problem; our financial system had collapsed, bringing us to the verge of bankruptcy and anarchy; and our people were decimated by diseases which sapped their productive capacity and were deprived of the most elementary educational and cultural facilities, surviving precariously in a primitive economy. In those circumstances, it was clear that our Government, if it was to salvage the nation, was faced with the exceptional task of breathing life into the shadow of an almost vanished State and society. 61.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Our nation was plagued by internal upheavals which precluded any attempt at civilization and culture and threatened to place us outside the ranks of the civilized nations, 59. During the early decades of this century, it became obvious that we must eliminate periods of social depression and embark upon a programme of national rehabilitation. We had to give force and meaning to our constitutional provisions which defined the Dominican Republic as a democratic and representative State, based upon the sovereignty of the people and on the fulfilment of certain essential human rights. 60. Up to 1930 our constitutional history was one of disharmony between the principles proclaimed by our institutions and the underlying economic and social facts. That being so, it was impossible for us to contribute in any way to international co-operation.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“57. The Dominican Republic shares to the full the anxieties which beset the American continent and which have placed the solution of the serious economic and social problems of the Americas in the forefront of public concern. The Dominican Republic, with a territory of 48,442 square kilometres and a population of 2,698,126 inhabitants, now offers, owing to the programme of political, social and economic rehabilitation introduced by Generalissimo Trujillo in 1930, the spectacle of a nation which is achieving its rightful aspirations within the American community of nations. 58. Yet, twenty-eight years ago the situation in the Dominican Republic offered one of the most depressing examples of economic and social under-development.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Just as at the conferences of Havana in 1928 , Montevideo in 1933 and Buenos Aires in 1936 , we succeeded in overcoming the dangerous indecision which was vitiating continental policy towards certain practices incompatible with the principles of the independence and sovereignty of States, and again reaffirmed the principle of non-intervention; and just as, at the conferences at Petropolis in 1947 and at Bogota in 1948, we established rules for collective security and the peaceful settlement of disputes which are an example to the rest of the world, it is now time for us to go beyond the stage of oratorical statements and of reservations inconsistent with the principles of economic and social co-operation which we claim to support, and to overcome the frustrations which attended the abortive Economic Agreement of Bogota, the meeting of Ministers of Finance in 1954 and the Economic Conference in Buenos Aires in 1947, in order to set up a vigorous and effective system of economic and social co-operation.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“We share the conviction of those who believe that the historical community of the American nations has sufficient moral and material resources to develop in our continent, in accordance with our traditions based upon Western Christian philosophy, an outstanding example of international co-operation for the purposes of Chapter IX of the Charter. 56. We are faced, and this should be stressed again, with a real challenge to the future of inter-American solidarity.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Either we yield to the blandishments of those who seek to draw the American economy into the orbit of that economic policy which governed by tire principles of dialectical materialism and the class struggle transposed to the sphere of international relations, with all the unforeseeable consequences which a progressive trend in that direction might have, or we accept the challenge to establish in the Americas economic and social institutions of the kind required for the purposes of collective security against aggression and the peaceful settlement of international disputes, 55.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“It must serve only the ends prescribed by the Charter, which stipulates that social progress and the raising of standards of living must conform to a more ample concept of freedom and that the creation of conditions of stability necessary for peaceful and friendly relations must be based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. 54. The vital need to mobilize resources of capital and technical knowledge and to secure steadily improved conditions for the international exchange of goods and services in order to better the social and economic situation of the under-developed countries is confronting the Americas with an extremely painful dilemma, which cannot go unheeded by American statesmen.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The wide disparities in economic development on the present international scene have given international communism a broad avenue for ideological and political penetration, and an opportunity for competition which is fraught with such implications for the future that concerted efforts of the widest and most vigorous kind are required to eliminate these disparities and to direct the fight against want, ignorance and disease along the only acceptable ideological lines, namely those defined at the beginning of Chapter IX of the Charter. 53. Economic and social co-operation may not be used as an instrument of political penetration or of intervention in the affairs of States.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“It is essential to bear in mind the spiritual factors involved, for it is those factors which constitute the active principle holding them together. The word alliance signifies mutual respect, sincere friendship, a genuine readiness to afford mutual help and a deep understanding between the parties pledging their respective strength and resources. 52. The ideological conflict which developed in international relations during the period I have mentioned is not, however, confined to a sharp tactical contest on the diplomatic front.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“We have witnessed an exchange of mutually recriminatory letters, which has vividly illustrated the clash between the two opposing points of view; charges have been brought without substantiation and the same subterfuges and sophistries have been brought out time and again, in the apparent belief that the nations witnessing this unedifying spectacle have short memories. This display of barren diplomatic exchanges is proof positive of the need to maintain the system of regional alliances provided for by the Charter at the highest level of effectiveness and unity of thought and action. 51. But what is the real significance of these associations for collective security? Alliances do not rest solely upon networks of bases and the mere interchange of material and equipment.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“The interval between the twelfth and the thirteenth sessions of the General Assembly has been one of the most anxious times in the history of the United Nations, The expansionist forces of international communism, faced with the Western Powers' policy of containment, have once again embarked upon a political manoeuvre comparable to the advance and withdrawal of the ocean waves and having the same effect of subterranean erosion, endangering as it does the defence of international peace and security. 50.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“This is demonstrated by our collaboration in the Organization’s collective security programmes and, more particularly, in those which are inspired by a genuine sense of human solidarity, such as the programmes concerned with refugees, child relief and technical assistance, to which we have contributed with a generosity and regularity which have already become proverbial. 49.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“My Government firmly believes in the fundamental purpose of this Organization, to whose creation it contributed as a charter member of the great alliance formed on 1 January 1941, while the struggle was being waged on the battlefields of Europe and the Far East for those same principles of freedom and the independence of nations which are now being debated amid the anguish and dangers of the cold war. 48. In accordance with the guiding principles of Dominican foreign policy, the Dominican Government has pursued a course of staunch support for the United Nations.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)
“Reaffirming its faith in the United Nations, the Dominican Republic takes part in the work of this thirteenth session of the General Assembly in order to combine its efforts with those of all States which are sincerely seeking, through the practice of the principles and methods advocated by the United Nations, the best solution to the urgent problems which are at present threatening the peace, security and well-being of the international community. 47.”
1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)