clearly, it would not be fitting for me to take this occasion to present to you a unilateral american report on
i therefore decided that this occasion warranted my saying to you some of the things that have been on the minds and hearts of my legislative and executive associates, and on mine, for a great many months -- thoughts i had originally planned to say primarily to the american people.
i know that the american people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.
finally, if there is to be advanced any proposal designed to ease even by the smallest measure the tensions of today’s world, what more appropriate audience could there be than the members of the general assembly of the united nations. i feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a se