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  1. “The Secretary-General, therein, reminds us that "... the volume of resources which is absorbed each year" in military uses considerably exceeds the total resources available for economic development in all the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America." [A/3844/Add.l, p. 3.] In terms of human need and of wasted opportunity, it is nothing less than tragic that this should be so. 13. I have two comments to make. How can we have conditions of peace whilst poverty and misery exist for so many hundreds of millions? One and one-half thousand million people are always hungry. How can we justify a life expectancy of little more than thirty years for some with over seventy years for others? I presided over the 1944 International Labour Conference.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  2. “May I turn for a moment to the most compelling, I believe, of our immediate problems, that of disarmament. Weapons have been developed which could leave the world in ruins and reduce humanity to a remnant shrivelled in mind and in body. Agreed measures to break the nuclear stalemate, check the arms race and lift the pall of fear would bring incalculable relief to every country in the world. 12. There would be significant and astounding economic benefit. Together with the representative of Pakistan, to whom I was privileged to listen this morning [769th meeting]. I call attention again to the statement by the Secretary-General, in the introduction to his annual report for this year — to which we have come to look, as is usual, for a perceptive commentary on the problems of concern to the United Nations.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  3. “Under the Charter we are enjoined to unite our strength, to maintain international peace and security, to seek to maintain the living standards where they are good, and for many peoples, better standards of life in larger freedom. Those injunctions have been imperfectly observed by many who pursue policies of political adventure harmful to international co-operation and to the welfare of their own people. 10. The outcome of the present Assembly's debates and votes will be different if we achieve a more positive emphasis on the human element in the problems we confront. We are not dealing here with abstract political concepts. We must be ever mindful that what we in the United Nations do, or fail to do, will have a profound effect on the lives of hundreds of millions of men, women and children. 11.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  4. “He has been called upon to assume very heavy responsibilities, and has discharged them with distinction. 9. My Government has always seen the United Nations as offering the best means of reconciling divergent policies and of breaking down barriers of misunderstanding and hostility to unite nations and races, so that they may all be one whilst retaining their individual freedom. In a time of rapid change such as this, incomparable in history, there is no period of a half-century to compare with 1908 to 1958, a period when so many profound changes that will affect the future years have taken place. And even excepting that half-century. I do not think it is anything but a shadow of the half-century in which we are now entering — 1958, if you like to 2008.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  5. “One is the unification of Germany, the continued division of which is a source of danger and a deep injustice to the German people. We have a divided Korea. We have a divided Viet-Nam. We have other places where nations, loving one another, are divided. Our job is to find a way where those that have been brought up through the ages and have built up civilizations of their own, and have sovereign powers of their own, shall have the right to live together. Yet in those problems to which it has turned its attention, with vitality beyond the normal, the United Nations, has helped to point the way to reconciliation; and in some disputes it has itself provided the means to make settlements effective. Much of this credit must go to the Secretary-General.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  6. “We shall consider and examine the control of outer space for peaceful purposes; we shall pass beyond the limits of this planet. We shall consider and study the problems of trusteeship, of economic and social development. We shall consider the extension of human welfare and the enlargement of human freedom, and thus, the be-all and end-all of all things, freedom of individuals to be themselves and of nations to have sovereign power to determine how they are to govern themselves. 7. The agenda is a mirror of men, of nations, of time and space, a mirror of mankind with its restless genius and dreams, and immeasurable capacity for good or evil. 8. During the last year, many major issues confronting mankind have been left in suspense.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  7. “Tension and violence in the area of Taiwan, in the Middle East or elsewhere carry more than local threats. The days of limited war are over. 5. If the United Nations is to grow in strength and if the peaceful world community which our interdependence demands is to come about, no Member State, great or small, can be indifferent when urgent problems are brought to this Organization for examination and, we hope, settlement. 6. This year, a full and wide-ranging agenda confronts us. We shall consider the unresolved issue of disarmament on which the survival of the human race may well depend. We shall consider problems directly affecting peace and security in important regions of the world. We shall consider the legal conditions governing the use of the territorial sea.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  8. “The estimated cost of armaments for the current year exceeds $100,000 million — almost too many naughts to write across a sheet of paper. Mankind has had centuries to learn the hard lessons of interdependence. Yet even now, a brief decade after the most bitter war in history, we have travelled a very little way in applying those lessons. 4. In the great issues of war and peace, while we do not have equal responsibility, none of us are without responsibility. Now, more than ever, it is true that no nation can live unto itself. The success of the struggle to overcome poverty in the less developed countries increases human welfare everywhere. The transition from dependence to nationhood — which implies interdependence — in Africa and Asia, confers benefits that are not confined to the newly sovereign countries.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)

  9. “1. Mr. President, may I begin by offering you my sincere congratulations on your election to the presidency of the General Assembly. You bring to your high office a record of attachment to the ideals of the Charter and mature experience of United Nations activities. Few can claim to have laboured with more devotion in the service of the Organization. I am confident that you will guide our deliberations wisely and impartially. Your election is richly merited. 2. We take up our work here at this Assembly against a background of crises in more than one area. We live in times of peril, labouring under a weight of arms heavier than at any other known time. Even the strongest among us are denied security and are divided by suspicion and fear. 3.”

    1958-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 13 (1958)