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Even if the Assembly meeting proves to be nothing more than a propaganda forum, the U.S. stands to lose nothing, whether or not it stands to gain anything. In any face-to-face propaganda debate with the Soviet Union over who committed aggression against whom, the U.S has the facts of history on its side. "The history of this century," said the President, shows "the basic purposes and principles of the U.S. as they are applied to the rest of the world. We have sought sovereignty over no other country. We have not tried to make any people or nation subservient to us in any way."
In contrast, he went on, Russia's 20th century record shows that Soviet accusations of aggression "should be directed directly to themselves, and not to us." And in the U.N., though prejudices and old resentments sometimes sway delegates' minds, the facts of history are never quite forgotten.