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VYSHINSKY

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first: 1947-09-24
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“Without the prohibition of the production and use of atomic weapons, all proposals regarding the establishment of an international body for control over the use of atomic energy would be deprived of any practical sense. It would be useless to try to prohibit or control atomic energy without banning atomic weapons in the first place. In such circumstances the very drafting of any provisions concerning the competence, functions, powers, and responsibilities of the control organ would be useless and a waste of time. Without the prohibition of atomic weapons, any and all talk about control over the use of atomic energy would be only a means of misleading the people and designed to serve as a smoke-screen concealing from the eyes of the world the true atomic weapons race.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Those circles, those quarters, were perfecting their aggressive plans and cherishing illusions that those plans would work, even if the whole nation or the vast majority of the nation which was to attack other countries was against war, against military aggression which was planned by the reactionary top groups. Those circles strenuously opposed a convention for the prohibition of atomic weapons, and instead of such a convention they were making proposals for the establishment of international control of atomic energy as a whole. It was not difficult to realize that without the prohibition of the use of atomic energy for military purposes, it would be absurd to speak of control over atomic energy, since the object of the control would not exist.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“The Soviet Union insisted on the need for establishing strict and effective international control over the observance of such a ban on the use of atomic weapons. The necessity to prohibit atomic weapons arose from the very nature of that type of weapon because it was essentially an aggressive weapon intended for attack and attack only. It was designed to destroy cities; it was a weapon designed for mass extermination of peaceful populations. Any objection to the prohibition of atomic weapons was possible only on the part of those circles which were interested in the retention in their own hands of the control over that weapon, groups which were cherishing plans for attacks on other countries.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“None of the tasks assigned to those Commissions by the General Assembly had been fulfilled and the Commissions had not moved one inch nearer to the implementation of those decisions. The work of the Atomic Energy Commission had remained fruitless, and the reason was that the Government of the United States had refused and continued to refuse to solve the principal problem, the solution of which would determine the direction and nature of all measures relevant to the problem of removing atomic weapons from national armaments and securing the atomic energy only and exclusively for peaceful purposes. Mr. Vyshinsky pointed out that, as was well- known, the Soviet Union had insisted and continued to insist on the necessity for immediately prohibiting atomic weapons and their utilization for aggressive ends.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“only to direct proposals on the part of certain States to revise the above-mentioned decision, but also to such measures as had resulted from the proposal of the United States delegation to set up a trusteeship over Palestine (A/C.l/277), and the proposal to appoint a Mediator (A/C.l/ SC.9/1) a measure, however, which so far had failed to yield any positive results. Mr. Vyshinsky then turned to another important question, a question which he regarded as of exceptional importance, the question of the control of atomic energy, and also the important question of not utilizing atomic energy for other than peaceful purposes. After thirty months of work by the Atomic Energy Commission, there had been no positive results. The same applied as regards the Commission for Conventional Armaments, which had worked for almost the same period of time.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“The policy of the majority of the Security, Council with regard to the Palestine question was not directed toward the adoption of measures for the removal of national contradictions in Palestine, nor was it directed toward ensuring good-neighbourly relations between the Jewish and Arab peoples; on the contrary, the policy of the Security Council had contributed to the deepening of those contradictions, of the cleavage, and forced both Arabs and Jews to take the road of armed force and armed clashes which had resulted in warfare in Palestine. The wrecking of the decision of the General Assembly of 29 November had been due not.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“The Committee had taken sides with the Dutch colonizers and imposed upon the Indonesian Republic the enslaving and grievous « Renville » Agreement, as a result of which Indonesia had been deprived of a number of rich areas taken by the Dutch in 1947. At the same time, the majority of the Security Council had rejected a proposal calling for the cessation of hostilities and for the withdrawal of Dutch troops from the territory they had occupied at the beginning of the military operations which had actually meant encouragement of the aggressors The Security Council had also failed to carry out its duty with respect to the Palestine question. The decision of the General Assembly of 29 November last had been ignored and the establishment of two independent States in Palestine, Arab and Jewish, had been impeded.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“In spite of the fact that, in many cases, those violations had been and remained a direct threat to the peace and security of the peoples, the majority of the Security Council not only did not find it fitting to adopt measures required for the removal of such threats, but, on the contrary, adopted the opposite position by supporting and bolstering such violators. It was so with regard to the Indonesian question where the majority of the Security Council had not adopted measures to stop the armed aggression by the Netherlands against the Indonesian people. The majority of the Security Council had adopted again that same attitude when, by decision of that majority, the case had been transferred to the hands of the Committee of Good Offices — consisting of representatives of the United States, Belgium and Australia.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Among them, it was essential to mention, in the first place, the decision of the General Assembly of 24 January 1946 on atomic energy, and the resolution of the General Assembly of 14 December 1946 on the general regulation and reduction of armaments. On the other hand, the Security Council also dealt with questions relating to cases of violation by certain States of the principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and decisions of the General Assembly — violations which had taken place in the course of the elapsed period.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“» Meanwhile, it had become even more obvious than it had been a year ago that the Marshall Plan not only did not make any contribution to the economic and political stabilization of Europe but, on the contrary, worsened the economic position of the European countries that had joined the Plan, which undermined their economic and political independence. Referring to the Security Council, Mr. Vyshinsky said that in the year 1947-1948, that Council had had before it a number of most important questions which were connected with the implementation of resolutions and recommendations of the General Assembly.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Despite the fact, that, as was well known, the Marshall Plan ignored the United Nations, the economic bodies of the United Nations had deemed it to be their most important task to facilitate the implementation of that Plan in every way possible. It was not accidental that the report of the Secretary-General himself, the report of Mr. Trygve Lie, pictured the Marshall Plan, without any reason whatsoever, as a « ... programme [which] holds great promise for the restoration of Western Europe to economic and political stability.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“In the field of economic questions, the activities of the United Nations in the course of the period under review had been concentrated on problems which, though of some importance, were far from affecting the most important interests of the peoples, and first and foremost, of the peoples of those countries which had suffered most from the war and from the severe hardships and privations imposed upon them by the hitlerites. Such bodies of the United Nations as the Economic and Social Council and the Economic Commissions for Europe and for Asia and the Far East had eschewed the fulfilment of the important tasks of drafting measures calculated to contribute to the rehabilitation of the economy of war devastated countries and to the development of their principal national industries.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Such a committee, with such an assignment and with such terms of reference, had been unable to win laurels either for itself or for the United Nations as a whole. As far back as 1947, numerous cases proving the lack of impartiality in the work of the Special Committee had been cited in the First Committee. It had been proved that no conclusions worthy of attention or credit could be arrived at on the basis of the material provided by the Special Committee. Mr. Vyshinsky said that exactly the same situation existed at present, and that the USSR delegation would have to return to the matter when the so-called Greek question came under consideration at the meetings of the First Committee and at subsequent meetings of the General Assembly.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“There could be no doubt that the future of Korea belonged to the Korean people who were championing the unity and independence of their country against all attempts to convert Korea into a colony and to use it as a place d’armes for aggressive purposes. Equally unsuccessful had been the efforts of the so-called United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans which had been illegally set up at the last session of the General Assembly, and which was calculated to facilitate the suppression of the national liberation movement in Greece, on the one hand, and to strengthen and support the artificial charges of the Greek monarcho-fascists against the northern neighbours of Greece on the other.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Accordingly, at the price of lawlessness and of splitting Korea in two, the United States authorities had set up a South Korean puppet government which they had widely advertised as the all-Korean Government. Such a falsification, however, could mislead no one. That falsification became particularly evident when compared with the situation in Northern Korea, where a widespread national movement for the unity and independence of Korea had resulted in the establishment of the Supreme People’s Council elected by the population of both Northern and Southern Korea, and in the creation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“The appointment of the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea was, according to the plans of the authors of that proposal, to cover up foreign interference in the internal affairs of Korea and to bolster the setting up in Korea of a government composed of individuals upon whom the United States authorities in Korea had already been leaning, and upon whom they hoped to lean in the future, in utter disregard of the interests of the people of Korea. Even in South Korea, numerous cases of lawlessness, violence and even terror had occurred against the progressive people, and particularly against the active participants of the democratic movement who did not want to put up with the lawless position of their country.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“There was no doubt, therefore, that the adoption of that proposal had been undermining — and continued to undermine — international co-operation based on mutual understanding, trust and respect, and the interests of all States, large and small, which were striving to strengthen peace and security for all peoples. Nevertheless, the Interim Committee had not justified the hopes of its champions and organizers. It was hardly accidental that the initiators of the establishment of the Interim Committee had not ventured, at the present session, to raise the question of transforming that Interim Committee into a permanent body.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“The establishment of the Interim Committee was another step towards the undermining of the United Nations, and towards the undermining of the whole cause of international co-operation, since the proposal of the United States was designed to transfer to the Interim Committee the solution of the most important matters relating to peace and security, thus bypassing the Security Council in violation of the United Nations Charter. It was designed to do so, not on the basis of the principle of the unanimity of the five great Powers, but on a different basis.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Even at that time there had been no doubt that the initiators of the establishment of that Interim Committee had as their aim the creation of a body which would compete with the Security Council in order to undermine the role and the significance of the Council as the body bearing the primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security under the Charter, Even at that time, it was clear that the Interim Committee was envisaged by the United States delegation as a body with functions wider than those of the Security Council.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“There was no need to put special emphasis on how injurious were the violations of the Charter of the United Nations and particularly the adoption of such unlawful decisions as, for example, the decisions regarding the establishment of the Interim Committee, the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea, the so-called United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans, to the authority of the General Assembly and the United Nations generally. Mr. Vyshinsky recalled the circumstances under which the Interim Committee was set up last year, upon a motion submitted by the delegation of the United States of America.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“At the same time, attention had to be drawn to the utterly abnormal situation in which influential Members of the Organization were making use of their influence not for the purpose of carrying out the recommendations of the General Assembly and relevant measures but, on the contrary, for the carrying out of measures basically contradictory to and incompatible with those recommendations. Such was the case, for example, with the Palestine question, the Indonesian question, that of discrimination in the Union of South Africa, and a number of other important questions.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“At the last session of the General Assembly, the delegation of the USSR spoke about the principal drawback in the activities of the United Nations (84th meeting), that drawback being the failure to fulfil a number of extremely important recommendations of the General Assembly. Recommendations on the general reduction of armaments, on the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes only, and on the expediting of the drafting of measures to prohibit atomic weapons had not been carried out; neither had recommendations on a number of other important issues.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“Mr. VYSHINSKY said that at the sessions of the General Assembly, it had already become a tradition for each session to be opened with a general discussion in order that Members might get a general picture of the path which had been traversed, sum up the events of the past year, make an analysis of the activities of the United Nations, and, as seemed natural, analyse the foreign policies of certain States, particularly of those which played a leading role in the United Nations. At the present session his delegation would present its review in the most concise form, and would do so in respect of the period of activity which had elapsed since the second session of the General Assembly, which took place from September to November 1947.”
1948-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 3 (1948)
“These words by the great leader of the Soviet peoples met with a profound response in the hearts of all Soviet citizens and, we believe, in the hearts of all simple, honest and progressive people throughout the entire world. The Soviet nation will spare no pains to see that this great task is successfully accomplished.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The United Nations affirm the necessity for the speediest implementation of the decision taken by the General Assembly on 14 December 1946 on the reduction of armaments, and the decision of the General Assembly of 24 January 1946 concerning the exclusion from national armaments of the atomic weapon and all other main types of armaments designed for mass destruction and considers that the implementation of these decisions is in the interests of all peace-loving nations and" would constitute a most powerful blow at propaganda and the inciters of a new war.” Generalissimo Stalin, in his message of greeting on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Moscow referred to the fact that Moscow was the champion in the struggle for lasting peace and friendship between the nations and against the instigators of a new war.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The United Nations deem it essential that the Governments of all countries be called upon to prohibit, on pain of criminal penalties, the carrying on of war propaganda in any form, and to take measures with a view to the prevention and suppression of war propaganda as anti-social activity endangering the vital interests and wellbeing of the peace-loving nations; “4.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The United Nations regard the toleration of and — even more so — support of this type of propaganda for a new war, which will inevitably become the third world war, as a violation of the obligations assumed by the Members of the United Nations whose Charter calls upon them “to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace” and not to “endanger international peace and security, and justice. (Article 1, paragraph 2 Article 2, paragraph 3); “3.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“To this end the Soviet delegation proposes the adoption of the following resolution: “1. The United Nations condemn the criminal propaganda for a new war, carried on by reactionary circles in a number of countries and, in particular, in the United States of America, Turkey and Greece, by the dissemination of all types of fabrications through the Press, radio, cinema, and public speeches, containing open appeals for aggression against the peace-loving democratic countries; “2.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“There is no doubt whatsoever that this campaign for a new war is severely and resolutely condemned by millions of people. The Soviet Government considers that such a situation cannot commend itself to the conscience of the peoples who bore on their shoulders all the hardships of the Second World War only recently ended, who paid for the war forced upon the peace-loving peoples with their blood, their sufferings and their material losses. Acting on the instructions of the Soviet Government, the delegation of the Soviet Union declares that the Soviet Union considers it urgently necessary that the United Nations should take steps against those who are now carrying on propaganda for a new war, in certain countries, and chiefly in the United States of America.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“Advyza of the reactionary Turkish paper Ergemeken, the so-called Professor Likhat Erim, several deputies and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Majlis, and others. This provocative claptrap is energetically supported by Greek reactionary papers, more particularly by the Ellinikon Aima, which published an article the other day in which it said : “The Russians should not forget that the chief Russian source of oil in Baku lies, as it were, in a saucer, only 100 kilometres away from the Turkish frontier.” And all this goes on unpunished before the eyes of the whole world. Such are the machinations of the enemies of peace, who incite to war for the sake of their selfish interests, for war gains, and who bring new sufferings and hardships upon humanity.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“Yalcin, the editor of the paper Tanin, who is notorious for his provocative activity, yields nothing to them. In September last he wrote that the time had come “to hang an atomic bomb over the conference table and invite the Russians to negotiate openly.” He also said the Russians should be sent an ultimatum and told that “they would be deluged with atomic bombs if they did not agree to the establishment of a new international order.” The same Mr. Yalcin wrote the other day that the only talk Moscow understood was ultimatum, and he called on the whole world “to unite against Russia.” The ultimatum language of which Yalcin dreams is familiar to us all as the “get tough policy” of the United States. Similar provocative appeals are made by other hireling scribblers, such as Mr.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The Turkish Press, day in and day out, disseminates vile slander against the Soviet Union, which, it claims, is preparing to invade Turkey (newspaper Aksam), It prophesies provocatively that “the United Nations will try to deal Russia a decisive blow from the coast of the Black Sea” (Demokrasi Iksam); it incites the Turkish nation to prepare for war and, at the same time, vaunts the military might of America, asserting that the United States will absolutely have to fight the Soviet Union. The notorious Cumhuriyet; in an article by a certain Daver, declares with cynical frankness that war is the only way to compel Moscow to take the right path.” He is echoed in Ulus by the Deputy Atay, the editor-in-chief of this paper, who states that “the time has now come for the United States and the United Kingdom to take more resolute measures.” Mr.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“It is well known that the United Kingdom is represented on this Joint Staff by a British military mission, headed by General Morgan, and the United States by a U S military mission, headed by Admiral Leahy. This Anglo-American Joint Staff, founded to co-ordinate military action against Germany and Japan continues to exist although the war ended two years ago. I need not enumerate the various aspects of the completely unrestrained and unbridled campaign of slander, and provocation designed to foment war against the Soviet Union, which has been carried on for a long time past in Turkey. I will deal exclusively with Turkey. The reactionary Press in Turkey tries to keep pace with the reactionary United States Press. “Where the horse prances, the crab crawls”, as the Russian proverb says.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“Churchill asserts that only people who speak English are a first-class nation. We also remember many other points in that speech, in which Mr. Churchill indulged in insinuations and calumny against the Soviet Union. Churchill’s son echoed his father’s words. He broke the record for warmongering in his speech at Sydney on 3 September. Very few people are interested in the utterances of the Churchill family as such but they serve as an indication of the dirty work which is being done in certain British circles against the cause of peace and in preparation for a new war, whether it be a repetition of Churchill’s notorious campaign against Russia or whether it take some other form. In this connexion we ought also to mention the fact that the Anglo-American Joint Staff is still functioning in Washington.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“Churchill’s speech at Fulton, where, speaking of “the general strategic concept,” as he called his basic statements, the former British Prime Minister committed “a dangerous act, designed to sow the seeds of discord, amongst the Allied States and hamper their cooperation”, as Generalissimo Stalin rightly remarked, when he emphasized that “Churchill’s attitude was a war attitude, a call for war against the USSR”. We all remember that in place of the United Nations as an association of peoples speaking different languages, Mr. Churchill posed the concept of an association of peoples speaking only the English language. In this way he was following the example of Hitler, who took the first step in unleashing the war by “proclaiming a racial theory, and declaring that only people who spoke German constituted a first-class nation” (Stalin). Mr.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“They are supported by their sympathizers in certain other countries, who are busily engaged in knocking together military-political or purely political western, northern or other blocs. In this connexion mention should be made of the speeches of certain British political leaders who, it is true, are not so downright in their declarations as their United States fellow-thinkers ; they use more subtlety, but maintain the same alarmist tone. You all remember Mr.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The article states: “Industrial preparedness is now the key to all government planning in Washington today against the contingency of a third world war”. Since this is the conclusion of such military authorities as Messrs. Patterson, Royall and other United States army leaders, this article obviously takes on special significance. It follows quite clearly from the above that the main responsibility for agitating and inciting in favour of a new war devolves on American reactionary circles, intent only on their own selfish interests and ready, for the sake of these interests, to hurl humanity once more into a destructive world war. But the United States reactionaries are not alone in these efforts.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“Kingdon, the Chairman of the “Progressive Citizens of America”, Wrote on this point in the New York Times that behind all this propaganda campaign are to be found the militaristically minded people who occupy high-ranking posts in the War and Navy Departments; members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, who listen to the calls for war; heads of monopolies and certain representatives of religious groups. The war party, it is said further, hopes that it will be possible to fabricate some incident and to use it as an excuse for dropping atomic bombs. The American Mercury, in its February issue this year, analysed the plans of the United States army which is preparing for a third world war.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“This is clear to progressive leaders in the United States, who are doing their best to unmask the war preparations at present being carried on there and to salve the minds of war-intoxicated people. These progressive United States leaders and a Progressive section of the United States Press try expose the war preparations which are being made in the United States at the instigation of military groups and various reactionary organizations. For instance, Mr. F.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“It calls, in open meetings, for an immediate attack on the USSR, and attempts to stir up public opinion by provocative and alarming references to the military might of the Soviet Union; at the same time, it emphasizes the need for, taking advantage of the present situation when, as the warmongers believe, the USSR is militarily weak and has not yet completely recovered from the effects of the Second World War. Thus, while it inspires fear of the mighty “white bear” — the Soviet Union — at the same time it urges: “Attack quickly, while this ‘white bear’ is still not very strong, before all its wounds are healed.” 4. It fosters, by every method, a war psychosis among the American people, inspired and encouraged by American militarist and expansionist groups.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“And the basic tendency of this propaganda can be summed up as follows: 1. It uses every means to instil fear of the Soviet Union, as a mighty Power allegedly bent on achieving world domination and preparing an attack on the United States, and makes the most barefaced use of every possible libellous insinuation and provocation against the USSR. 2. It openly advocates that armaments should be strengthened and atomic weapons further improved. Any attempt to restrict, still less prohibit, the use of atomic weapons should be abandoned. 3.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“Kern points out that the Japanese would probably welcome the possibility of a war with the Russians and that the Japanese Army supported by the United States would presumably be able “to seize Asiatic Russia” to the east of Lake Baikal. He added: “The United States’ mastery of the seas would make it possible to land at almost any point, and Japan herself would be safe under the protection of the superior United States air and naval forces. These menacing strategic facts explain why Russia’s absence at the Peace Conference on Japan would never be felt.” These facts, I may add, explain a lot of other things which must bring a blush of shame to the cheek of any honest person. Thus, for a considerable time now propaganda for war is being systematically spread in the United States of America.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The Japanese would be fools if they did not notice this almost hysterical attitude.” This is confirmed by a report in the magazine 'Newsweek, written by Mr. H. Kern, the magazine’s foreign editor, who had just returned from Japan. Mr. Kern states that United States generals in Japan are systematically influencing Japanese militarists in favour of the inevitability and necessity of a war against the Soviet Union. He reports that a large number of Japanese suicide-flyers presented themselves at United States airfields and declared their readiness to take part in a new war against Russia which, they had heard, had already begun. Mr.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“An article by the English journalist, Vernon Bartlett, published in the London newspaper, News Chronicle, early last August gives some idea of the impression made on people by this type of propaganda, which is disseminated by reactionaries all over the world and which is particularly strong in United States spheres of influence. The article includes these noteworthy lines: “From the moment a person arriving in the zone controlled by General MacArthur reaches Okinawa on his way to Japan, he is struck by the tone of the references in the American newspapers to the Soviet Union. The United States soldier can certainly not be blamed if after reading these newspapers he comes to the conclusion that war against Russia is probably a matter of months.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“An article in the publication Army Ordnance also takes the same line in regard to a new toxin, research into which, according to this publication, has cost $50 millions. As the author says, however, this expenditure “is fully justified” because one ounce of this toxin is sufficient to kill 180 million people. When one reads all this so-called “scientific” literature, one feels the satanic energy expended by the warmongers and war propagandists to create an atmosphere in which the human conscience is stupefied by war hysteria.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The provocative inference drawn from this reflection is “the serious danger for the United States, that unless we (the United States) warn it properly, the Soviet Union may one fine day start a war against us.” The foregoing extracts from this book are sufficient to show how varied are the forms and methods assumed by the propaganda being spread in the United States for a new war, aimed primarily at the Soviet Union. How far this new war propaganda has gone, with the accompanying demands made for the manufacture of the most lethal forms of weapons, can be seen from a report by Mr. Merck published in the Chemical and Engineering News, where, in the section entitled “Science and Civilization”, the lethal advantages of bacteriological warfare are openly advocated.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“.” These gentlemen, it appears, are prepared to sacrifice even their own Constitution, if only they can be the first to attack, the first to drop an atomic bomb, though no one in the world has any intention at all of dropping atomic bombs on America. That there is no such intention is well known to the authors of this false and libellous book. It suits them, however, to lie and slander, and hireling pen-pushers disseminate these falsehoods all over the world in millions of copies because it is so commanded by the monopolies which control all the means of information. Under the guise of scientific reflections of every nature, this book speaks of the danger of “unilateral actions by a specific great Power”, and says that, if in the future “unilateral actions” are taken, it is much more likely to expect them from the Soviet Union.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“It mentions also that if the United States Air Force “could use northern Canadian bases, cities in the Soviet Union would be within considerably closer range” and in tins way, “it would be possible, using these bases, to destroy most of the big cities of any other Power”. What other Power? The USSR! That is the dream that the gentlemen from Yale describe in the book The Absolute Weapon. In this book devoted to the so-called absolute weapon (the atomic bomb) a group of American authors engages in suspicious speculations as to whether, “if we” (that is, the Americans) “fail to strike the first blow and thereby remove the threat before it is carried into effect, that is, do something which our Constitution deliberately forbids us to do, we are doomed to perish as a result of atomic attack . .”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“This, of course, facilitates the propaganda work of the fomenters of a new war who exploit their privileged position to the detriment of the interests of the peace-loving nations. A few words could be added to the foregoing regarding the propaganda for a new war conducted by scientific institutions and universities. In this connexion, I should mention the collection entitled, The Absolute Weapon, recently published by Yale University. In this work a group of scientists, speaking of the atomic weapon and control of the use of atomic energy, could think of nothing better than to draw the conclusion that “the most effective way of preventing war is to be able to start an atomic war literally in a flash.” Under the guise of scientific objectivity this book sets forth the different forms of atomic warfare.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)
“The most important thing to note, however, is not that these statements are made, but that they meet with no real rebuttal, which merely encourages these papers to still further provocation. This Press is entirely in the hands of the owners of the various newspaper concerns and carries out their orders, presenting their own literary efforts as expressing public opinion, and making it appear that they are communicating the tendencies and hopes of the American people. It can be confidently asserted, however, that the American people, like the people of other democratic countries, are opposed to a new war for the scars of the last war have not yet healed. In most cases, however, the people have no opportunity of expressing in books, magazines, or newspapers with a circulation in millions their needs and their aspirations.”
1947-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 2 (1947)