Lang was the warm up. The main event was Edmund de Rothschild taking the floor and dictating language straight into the resolutions of the conference, which would in turn flow into the United Nations record without amendment. There was no debate. There was no challenge. The chairman of the session, a man called Michael Sweetman who happened also to be the president of the proposed World Conservation Bank, declined to take questions from the floor. Hunt tried. Hunt was refused.
The recording survives. Rothschild's actual words, slow, courtly, English, are these:
But perhaps this conference might like to think more about the Marshall Plan which had been mooted and put forward very tentatively at the Denver conference. And perhaps this might be the keynote of what you have heard today.
Verbatim from the recording. Speaker: Edmund de Rothschild, Fourth World Wilderness Congress, Denver, September 1987. Source: G. W. Hunt video letter, May 1992.