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“As our President should know, at the Lisbon meeting of the North Atlantic bloc it was decided to establish a huge network of air bases, to be paid for mainly by the United States, in a number of Western European countries Which are members of the bloc; as a result of this decision, Approximately 200 military aerodrome are to be built in the near future. 74. Such are the facts. They show that in the imperialistic camp the rate of preparation for a new world war is being accelerated under the cover of lying propaganda to the effect that the USSR is threatening the peace. 75. Another convincing indication of the aggressive intentions of the North Atlantic bloc are the ever-increasing military credits voted in the countries which belong to the bloc, particularly in the United States.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Such newly constructed American bases as those in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, the Azores, French Morocco, Tripolitania, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Transjordan, Japan and a number of other countries are directed — and this is openly proclaimed — against the USSR, the Chinese People’s Republic and the European people’s democracies. The construction of a large number of American bases in Western Europe should be noted. In the United Kingdom, for example, there are now twenty-six American air and other bases. The United Kingdom has already been virtually transformed into one vast American air base.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Simultaneously, the North Atlantic bloc, under United States leadership, has been carrying out vast naval and air manoeuvres which are patently designed to provoke the USSR and the peoples’ democracies, as was apparent, in particular, from the recent manoeuvres conducted by eight members of the North Atlantic bloc under the significant name of “Operation Main Brace”. 72. The United States, which, it is well known, plays a leading part in this bloc, has been still further intensifying the armaments race, expanding war industries and developing other military measures on a grand scale. 73. The ruling military circles in the United States have paid particular attention to the construction of new military; naval and air bases overseas.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The true significance of these agreements was defined by even the bourgeois Latin-American Press in such headlines as: “Brazil mobilizes for War”. Under the same pretext of “defence”, of the United States — invented to receive people — the ruling circles of the United States have concluded a Pacific pact with New Zealand and Australia, declaring that these regions are of vital importance to the security of the United States, although it is well known that they are separated from the United States by several thousand miles. 71.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“They allege that such a “Command” must be organized as a means of defence against the Soviet Union, which is said to be threatening the security of the countries of the Near and Middle East, Such pretexts, however, are all too flimsy; their absurdity should be quite obvious. Unlike the Powers Which are accustomed to regard the countries of the Near and Middle East as their colonies, the policy of the Soviet Union towards those countries has been fully in keeping with the basic national interests of the peoples of the Near and Middle East and, indeed, of all peace-loving peoples. 70. During the past year; the ruling circles of the United States have imposed on a number of Latin-American countries — Brazil, Colombia and others — so-called agreements involving so-called mutual security guarantees.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Subsequently, they signed another agreement with Western Germany, oh the so-called European Defence Community, which has the same objectives, 69. The ruling circles in the United States have increased their pressure on the countries in the Near and Middle East to establish a so-called Middle East allied command and to induce these countries to join it, and in this way to join the North Atlantic bloc, so that they can use their territories, like those of other colonial and dependent countries, for the construction of military bases, and their populations as reservoirs of manpower for the new world war which they are preparing.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“A frenzied armaments race is taking place in the countries which are members of that bloc. Great efforts are being made to organize new armies and to create aggressive military alliances in the west and in the east. During the year, largely owing to the efforts of the United States, two new countries — Turkey and Greece — have been brought into the North Atlantic bloc. In practice, Western Germany and Yugoslavia, vassals of the United States, are also members of that bloc. 68. During the year, the Western Powers, led by the United States, have signed a separate agreement at Bonn with the Adenauer Government; this agreement is an overt military alliance legalizing the renaissance of German militarism and the establishment of a West German mercenary army under the command of fascist and hitlerite generals.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The USSR delegation therefore considers it essential to place particular emphasis on the great significance of the Polish delegation's proposal, calling on all the States which have not yet acceded to or ratified the 1925 Geneva Protocol to do so. This applies in particular to the United States, which has so far refused to ratify the Geneva Protocol, The USSR delegation fully shares the indignation that the use of bacterial weapons against the Korean and Chinese peoples by United States armed forces has aroused in millions of decent human beings all over the world. The USSR delegation whole-heartedly supports the proposal submitted by the Polish delegation. 67. During the past year, the aggressive North Atlantic bloc has intensified its activities in preparation for a new world war.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“They are concentrating on selecting the most virulent types and on perfecting ways and means for their dissemination. 65. Bacterial weapons are used in Korea, however; not only for the criminal purpose of mass destruction of the peaceful population, but also to test the weapon in practice and to acquire experience, so to speak, in its use; to test, as the United States Secretary of the Army, Mr. Pace, openly stated, the efficacy of methods and processes used in solving pressing military problems. The American aggressors are thus trying to use Korea as a proving ground, to try out the effectiveness of deadly bacteria. That is the nadir of moral turpitude. 66.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“It is no accident that bacterial weapons attract so much attention in these circles, nor is it by accident that American universities — for example, the University of California — are doing special research on the dissemination of plague by means of spraying. Bacteria are regarded in the United States as a major weapon of war. "Germs and not generals win wars!” These Words were spoken the other day by General Creasy by the United States Army Chemical Corps. It is not generals — generals, please note — who win the wars, but, the germs which replace the generals in the United States Army. Nor is it by accident that, particularly during this past year, a number of United States Government and scientific institutions have redoubled their efforts to improve methods of breeding bacteria.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“While trying vainly to refute these facts, the United States Government nevertheless openly refuses to ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of bacterial weapons which it signed, wishing apparently to remain free to uses these weapons in future. An official representative of the United States, General Alden Waitt, Chief of the United States Chemical Warfare Service, is full of praise for bacterial weapons, which he describes as a practical form of warfare, with tremendous potentialities. He asserts that the United States has no right or, as he puts it, cannot afford, to ignore this weapon, particularly as it is both cheap and simple to use. 64.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“This was confirmed by the captured United States officers O’Neill, Enoch, Quinn and Niss, who had themselves taken part in air raids in which they used bombs filled with bacteria of the most dangerous infectious diseases, intended for the mass destruction of the peaceful population. In the five halls of the recently opened exhibition in Peking of material evidence of the use by United States armed forces of bacterial weapons, are to be found some 500 documents, photographs and other material. These are facts. They have been firmly established and cannot be shaken by demagogy, by lies, by trickery or by slander. 63.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“In its report, the commission of scientists, which represents seven nations, told the world that it was compelled to bow before the weight of the evidence and admit that such brutal methods were indeed being used, though they were condemned by the peoples of the whole world. It further stated that the peoples of Korea and China had been subjected to continuous bacterial attacks by United States armed forces, who used a variety of methods for infecting the populations, some of which appear to be a development of those used by the Japanese army during the Second World War.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The USSR delegation feels it necessary to call particular attention to the use of bacterial weapons by United States armed forces in Korea, a fact which, as we know, is obstinately denied by the United States Government. 62. Official representatives of the United States are endeavouring to deny that United States armed forces have used this inhuman weapon. But many facts have been established by impartial international committees, such as the committee of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and the International Scientific Commission composed of representatives of seven countries — the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, China, the USSR, France and Sweden, proving that the United States interventionists have committed these atrocious crimes.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“It warmly supports the Polish, delegation's proposal for the withdrawal from Korea of foreign troops, including foreign volunteers — the Chinese volunteer units — within a period of two, or three months, and the peaceful settlement of the Korean question on the principle of the unification of Korea,, this unification to be achieved by the Koreans; themselves under the supervision of a commission composed of representatives of the parties immediately concerned and those of other States, which have not taken part in the war in Korea. 60, In the view of the Soviet Union delegation and Government, this is the way to settle the Korean question, This is also one of the most effective ways of removing the present tension in international relations of preserving peace and strengthening international security. 61.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“It is the General Assembly's duty to solve this problem and to do so in accordance with the principles of the United Nations. 59. The proposals submitted by the Polish delegation [A/2229] fully meet the General Assembly’s requirements in this respect. The USSR delegation therefore wholeheartedly supports our Polish colleagues' proposal, which calls on the General Assembly to recommend to the belligerents the immediate cessation of military operations on land, at sea and in the air. It also wholeheartedly supports the proposal for the repatriation of all prisoners of war in accordance with international law.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The protests of the Korean and Chinese, prisoners of war against this arbitrary and illegal action have been silenced by the United States Command, as was in the case in the prisoner of war camps on Koje Island! by shootings, which still continue in American prisoner-of-war camps. This is a violation of international law unprecedented in history, 58. The present session of the General Assembly is again faced with the task of finding a settlement for the Korean question. The peace-loving peoples who have created a powerful front fighting for peace throughout the world, are demanding ever more insistently and urgently the cessation of the war in Korea and the curbing of the imperialist aggressors; and are offering ever-increasing resistance to United States aggressive policy.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“They have even committed a gross violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention, and in particular articles 118 and 119 of that Convention, which require belligerents to guarantee the unconditional repatriation of all prisoners of war, with the exception of those against whom criminal proceedings for an indictable offence are pending. The United States has refused to comply with this requirement, despite the fact that the United States Government is a signatory to the Convention. 57. As we have already pointed out, the United States has unlawfully, and by unscrupulously exerting every kind of pressure and coercion, carried out a screening of prisoners of war, extorting from their declarations of unwillingness to return to their homes.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“In the circumstances, it should be clear to everyone why , the United States Command has suspended the Panmunjom talks in spite of all the efforts of -the Korean side to reach an agreement on an armistice on terms acceptable to all fair-minded people and based on the universally accepted rules of international law. It also becomes dealt why the United States ruling circles are stubbornly rebuffing all attempts to reach agreement and are inventing a variety of pretexts for initiating fruitless discussion, for the sole purpose of delaying or disrupting the Korean truce talks, as indeed has just happened. 56. They rise the question of the exchange of prisoners of war as a pretext of that kind, presenting unprecedented demands contrary to the most fundamental, and universally accepted rules of international law.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The Commander of the United States Eighth army in Korea, General Van Fleet, called the Korean war a blessing — that was the word he used; he was undeterred by the blasphemy — asserting that such military operations were essential either in Korea or in some other parts of the world. 54. In his statement on 27 September 1952, President Truman announced that he would not follow the advice of those who urged the withdrawal of United States armed forces from Korea. He said substantially the same thing in the statement which appears in the New York Press today, namely, that the United States would not permit the withdrawal of its forces from Korea. The statement of the President of the United States can of course be interpreted only as a decision by the United States ruling circles to continue this shameful war against the Korean people, 55.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“United States generals, for example, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Bradley, also favour a breakdown in the Korean talks for military reasons, namely, the need to gain time to carry out an even more extensive military programme involving further increases in armaments and armed forces and the construction of new military, naval and air bases outside the United States, and the expansion of existing ones. 52. The United States Secretary of the Army, Mr. Pace, has expressed himself in favour of the war and has expressed the view that the Korean war is helping the United States to test and perfect its military techniques and to improve its arms and ammunition. 53.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“It was further stated that the United States could not scrap its armaments and switch to civilian production, as it had in 1945. 50. The well-known United States Senator, Mr. Taft, is also urging delay in concluding an armistice in Korea, and is openly stressing the need to prolong the truce talks until war production in the United States has, as he puts it, reached its peak. The fact that the United States is already in the throes of a feverish armaments race is apparently not enough for Mr. Taft. 51.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“When, in the spring of 1952, there was talk of the possibility: of an armistice in Korea, the Wall Street Journal reported that prices on the stock exchange had shown a particularly sharp decline during the preceding period. This was ascribed to widespread rumours of peace ... brokers feared that the cessation of hostilities might interfere with rearmament grid leave leading firms with inflated capital investments disproportionate to the needs of peace-time production. 49. Hot only the American, but also the British Press commented oh this, as may be seen, for example, from the statement published in the well-known British weekly. New Statesman and Nation, to the effect that United States business circles can hardly be expected to welcome peace, since the United States economy is geared to war.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“They are bent on continuing to use it as one of their main sources of enrichment and as one of the means of averting the threat of a depression and, the growing crisis in the capitalist countries, above all in the United States, This is obvious from numerous statements by leading American businessmen, financiers, stockbrokers, politicians, generals, ministers and the President of the United States himself. 47. A prominent American financier, Mr. James Warburg, for example, publicly stated that the United States is rapidly acquiring a legitimate interest in the absence of peace, According to Mr. Warburg, the war is saving the United States economy from depression and crisis by flooding the war industry with military orders mainly destined to prolong the Korean war. 48.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Acheson said nothing about this, here, when he spoke about the situation in Korea; he preferred to hide behind empty phrases about "just terms” although really just terms were submitted to the United States Command almost two weeks ago, by Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh Huai, who have done everything in their power to secure an armistice agreement in Korea. 46. The American multi-millionaires, who are profiting by this war, are naturally reluctant to see it end.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The exchange, visit, classification and repatriation of prisoners of war can be conducted under the supervision of control groups composed of representatives of neutral countries." 44. What was the United States delegation’s reaction to these really fair and reasonable conditions, to this proposal which, it would seem should have paved the way for the final settlement of the Korean situation? The United States delegation completely ignored the proposal. It refused to discuss it and immediately proceeded to read out its previously prepared statement concerning the suspension of negotiations sine die. The United States delegation then walked out of the conference room without even waiting to hear the Korean-Chinese Command’s reply to its statement. 45. Mr.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“"After the prisoners of war have been turned over on both sides”, the letter goes on to say, "mixed groups of the Red Cross shall visit them as provided in paragraph 57 of the draft armistice agreement on Korea and as proposed by you” — that is, again, the United States side; this is the second United States proposal agreed to by Kim II Sung and Peng Teh Huai — "in order to explain that their return home, to peaceful pursuits, has been guaranteed, and that they are not to participate in military operations in Korea. Following this, a classification of prisoners of war shall be conducted according to their nationality and domicile, as proposed by us” — that is, Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh Huai, the Korean-Chinese side. "Repatriation shall take place immediately after the classification.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“On 8 October, ten days ago, these generals submitted a proposal to that end, to which exception could be taken only by those who had resolved in advance to prevent an armistice in Korea at all costs. 43. What was that proposal? I shall take the liberty of reading parts of it: “Considering that it is lawful to demand the repatriation of all prisoners of war of both sides and their return to peaceful pursuits, we proposed that, following the coming into force of the armistice agreement, all prisoners of war should be taken to mutually agreed exchange points in the demilitarized zone, as proposed by you" — that is, the United States Command — "so that they can be turned over to and accepted by the other side.” This is the first provision contained in the proposals submitted to General Clark by Kim II Sung and Peng Teh Huai.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The latest communication from the Commander-in-Chief of the Korean People’s Army, General Kim II Sung, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese People’s Volunteers, General Peng Teh Huai, to General Mark Clark, rightly pointed out that, had it not been for the United States Command’s deliberate obstruction of the settlement of the prisoner-of-war issue, an armistice in Korea would, without any doubt, have been achieved long ago. Peace would assuredly have been restored in South and North Korea, and the prisoners of war of both sides would have returned home long since to civil life, 42. This obstruction, however, has served its purpose, having led to the recent breakdown in the negotiations, in spite of all Kim II Sung and Peng Teh Huai’s efforts to reach positive results.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“All this has been replaced by talk about some sort of just terms, designed simply to confuse the credulous. Such statements cannot be taken seriously, particularly in view of the record of the negotiations with the representatives of the United States Command in Korea during the past year, 40. It is obvious that the United States Government has no great desire for an armistice or an end to the Korean war. As before, it is trying to conceal its economic difficulties by waging that war. It has done everything in its power to drag out the Panmunjom, truce talks and, recently, suspended negotiations sine die, hoping thus to be able to exert pressure on the other side. 41.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The United States negotiators have prolonged the talks without cause. At the same time, the United States Air Force has been bombing the Korean rear; destroying cities, burning villages and exterminating the Korean civilian population — defenceless children, women and old people — perpetrating one crime after another and violating all the generally recognized rules of international law and morality. 38. That is what the "secure and sound foundations", about which the United States representative spoke here so glibly, actually amount to. That is the true face of those honourable terms acceptable to both parties, of which the United States representative assured the Assembly in such high-flown terms. 39. Now we hear talk about "just terms". We no longer hear about honourable or acceptable terms, about "secure" and "sound" foundations.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The USSR delegation pointed out at the time that this was merely a pretext designed to prolong the negotiations by making absurd demands on the Korean Army and the Chinese volunteers concerning construction and reconstruction of airfields and the exchange of, prisoners of war, while employing intimidation, blackmail and pressure in the form of military action. We pointed out at that time that the United States Command was using such methods in the attempt to secure concessions and to prolong the negotiations, while increasing its military equipment and reserves in preparation for further aggression. 37. Nearly a year has since elapsed. Are we not now fully justified in contending that all the events of that year, the whole course of the Panmunjom armistice talks, have fully confirmed the fears that we expressed last year?”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The United States representative stated then, as now, that the United States Government would exert every effort to secure an armistice in Korea on lasting terms acceptable to both parties. Opposing the Soviet Union delegation’s proposal that the General Assembly should discuss the question of an armistice in Korea and should facilitate the attainment of positive results by the parties concerned, the United State representative stated last year that that proposal was premature and could only serve to impede the conclusion of an armistice in Korea, and that a lasting political agreement must be based on “secure and sound foundations” which might be laid by the successful conclusion of armistice negotiations. 36.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“They can only be described as being in flagrant violation of the basic concept of fairness, As patently illegal and contrary to all the generally recognized rules of international law and international morality. This applies to the United States demand for the so-called “screening” of prisoners of war, that is, the division of the prisoners into those whom the United States Command is prepared to repatriate, and those whom it intends to retain in captivity. The United States Command does not recoil from using any method of compulsion to achieve its ends, including shooting, as was the case on Koje Island and in other American camps for Chinese and Korean prisoners of war. 35. In this connexion, certain facts connected with the action taken by the sixth session of the General Assembly in the Korean question inevitably spring to mind.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Trygve Lie urges the continuation of intervention in Korea and calls upon the United Nations to continue the war in Korea and to demonstrate its determination to act energetically. This illustrates the truth of the Russian proverb: “Where the horse goes with his hooves, the crab goes with its claws”. 34. Mr. Acheson told the General Assembly that the United States would stop fighting in Korea when an armistice had been reached “on just terms”. But why did he fail to indicate what constitutes “just terms”? Perhaps he will still find time to explain to the General Assembly what he means by “just terms”? None of the terms hitherto put forward by the United States Command in Korea, of course with the approval of the United States Government, can be described as being in any way fair.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Acheson again attempted to represent United States intervention in Korea as a United Nations struggle against aggression, repeating the completely discredited theory that the war which the United States interventionists have inflicted upon the Korean people is defensive in character and is not being waged for aggressive purposed, whereas, of course, it is just the opposite that is true. 32. Asked how long the war in Korea would continue, Mr. Acheson replied: “We shall fight on as long as is necessary to stop the aggression and to restore peace and security to Korea”. 33. In the report which has been Circulated by the Secretariat to delegations at the present session, Mr.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“It is quite obvious that the aggressive plans of the United States With respect to Korea have failed, despite the fact that the United States Command, in order to break the resistance of the Korean people, has not hesitated and is not hesitating to use beastly and barbarous methods of warfare, to destroy Korean cities and to exterminate the civilian population, not sparing women, children or the aged. Flouting all the standards of international law and disregarding the elementary requirements of morality, the United States forces are introducing and systematically using gases, napalm bombs and bacterial weapons. 31. The failure of the United States intervention, however, has not caused the United States ruling circles to desist from further attempts to carry out their aggressive plans. In his statement of the day before yesterday, Mr.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The situation in these countries is in fact the direct result of their predatory exploitation, predominantly, at the present time, by American monopolistic capital, which does not spare the so-called under-developed countries of the East, of Latin America or of Asia, or even a number of the capitalist countries of Europe which have already attained a considerable degree of economic development. 29. All this cannot fail to heighten the international tension and this is particularly true of the military operations which the bloc of colonial Powers is waging in the East against the peoples of Korea, Vietnam and Malaya, who are fighting for their independence and freedom. 30. The war in Korea is already in its third year.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“But he too was compelled to admit that the plight of the peoples of those countries was tragic. “The tragedy", Mr. Acheson said, “is that over half the world’s people still suffer from malnutrition and many live on the verge of starvation”. He went on to say that the world today has less food per person than it did before the Second World War”. Mr. Acheson explains this situation in which, as he says, half the population of the globe is deprived of the means of existence, by the fact that there is not enough food to go round and that, in many areas of the world, food output is increasing at a slower rate than is population. I think there is no need to dwell on the worthlessness of this Malthusian exploration, particularly as Mr. Acheson is, I am sure, fully aware of the real causes of the tragedy to which he referred.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“Not concealing his hostility to this movement, which has in fact spread to countries comprising a population of more than a thousand million people who are seeking to break the chains of foreign domination, the author of the report proclaims that this movement represents “one of the greatest challenges to contemporary civilization” And calls upon the General Assembly to find ways — I quote the words of the report — to prevent “the violent Upheavals and Widespread chaos” which, according to the author, would otherwise probably be in store for the United Nations Organization. 28. In his statement the day before yesterday [380th Meeting], the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Acheson, also referred to the situation of the colonial peoples and dependent countries.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“25. Any account of the contemporary international situation would be incomplete without a reference to the further deterioration in the economic and political situation of the so-called under-developed countries, where, in spite of great natural resources, hundreds of millions of people are domed to a life of poverty and hunger and death from starvation. 26. Even the report of the United Nations. Secretariat on the current year’s work cannot conceal this. It shows that political, economic and social problems are particularly acute in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America; the author of the report is compelled to admit that the national liberation movement of peoples claiming equal rights and freedom from foreign control is growing in those countries. 27.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The year that has elapsed since the sixth session of the General Assembly has shown that the activities of the North Atlantic bloc — whose aggressive aims its organizers and leaders are vainly seeking to conceal by references to the alleged need for defensive measures — have played and are continuing to play a decisive role in the heightening of international tension and in the deterioration of the international situation, The leaders of that bloc, who come from the ruling circles of the United States, and from those of the United Kingdom and France, which support United States policy, are making demagogic speeches about peace and behind this peace-loving façade are continuing to foment a war psychosis and exerting every effort to maintain the tension in their own countries and to prevent the peaceful settlement of important questions of foreign policy which are still outstanding and whose immediate solution is demanded by all peace-loving peoples.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“The present session of the General Assembly has met at a time when problems of international relations call for particular attention as a result of the complications and tensions of the present international situation. 24.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“As the seventh session of the General Assembly takes up its work, important and complex questions of vital concern to millions of human beings, of whole peoples and States, are in the foreground of international attention. The most crucial of these problems in that of peace, of peaceful co-operation and international security. These problems also played an important part in the work of previous sessions of the General Assembly, at which the Soviet Union delegation consistently and perseveringly upheld the need for the adoption by the General Assembly of measures for the maintenance of peace and the strengthening of co-operation among nations.”
1952-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 7 (1952)
“States, the United Kingdom and France, the three Powers which lead the Atlantic bloc and whose conduct determines the political climate in government circles in a number of other countries, then indeed the way will be opened for the General Assembly to adopt serious and responsible resolutions. 122. We are convinced, profoundly convinced, that the proposals of the Soviet Union make it possible for the General Assembly to proceed boldly and resolutely along this path.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“These representatives will perhaps now be quite satisfied that we do not wish to postpone the reduction of armaments until the world conference which will have to draft practical measures but are proposing, as a supplement to our proposal for a world conference to consider the reduction of armaments, that a reduction by one-third of the armaments of the five Powers and the prohibition of atomic weapons should be discussed at the present session of the General Assembly. 121. We are profoundly convinced that if the proposals for the settlement of outstanding international questions, for an endeavour to put an end to the aggressive American war in Korea, for the reduction of armaments and the like are not mere words but really express the desire of the United.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“We consider it expedient and essential that the General Assembly should adopt in principle a recommendation concerning the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic weapons, and that a world conference, with a wider membership, including all countries of the world, should consider specific questions arising out of these recommendations and affecting all the countries participating in the conference. 119. I would also recall that during the general debate a number of representatives, including Mr. Pearson, the head of the Canadian delegation, who of course is also at the same time chairman of the highest council of the aggressive Atlantic bloc, endeavoured to thwart our proposals for convening a world disarmament conference by asking: “Why wait until June? Is not the General Assembly itself a disarmament conference?” 120.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“The significance of the foregoing proposals is obvious and requires no special clarification, I consider it necessary to dwell merely on our additional proposal for the one-third reduction by the permanent members of the Security Council of their armaments and armed forces, in connexion with the proposal we made on 8 November for the convening of a world conference on reduction of armaments and armed forces and the prohibition of atomic weapons.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Lastly, we make the additional proposal that the General Assembly should recommend the establishment within the Security Council of an international control organ, the functions of which shall be to supervise the implementation of the decisions on the prohibition of atomic weapons and the reduction of armaments and armed forces, and to verify the data submitted by the States regarding the situation of their armaments and armed forces. 118.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)
“Thirdly, the General Assembly should recommend that forthwith and in any case not later than one month after the adoption by the General Assembly of the decisions on the prohibition of atomic weapons and the reduction by one-third of the armaments and armed forces of the five Powers, all States should submit complete official data on the situation of their armaments and armed forces, including data on atomic weapons and military bases in foreign territories. These data should relate to the situation obtaining at the time when the above-mentioned decisions are adopted by the General Assembly. 117.”
1951-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 6 (1951)