Peace Conference Quotes

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.