"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
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Dag Hammarskjöld, On accusations by Nikita Khrushchev, as quoted in The Times [London] (4 October 1960)
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