Documents on European Recovery and Defence - March 1947-April 1949

Published 1949
Since the end of the war there have been many proposals for the reconstruction and defence of Western Europe. Now that a Council for Europe has emerged and the North Atlantic Treaty has been signed, it is more than ever necessary that the student of international questions shouls be able to follow clearly the stages which led up to these events. This volume collects into convenient compass the most important docyments in which these developments are recorded, from the Benelux Agreement, the first step in the integration of the European economy, to the North Atlantic Treaty, which, by setting the seal on the identity of interest between Europe and the North American Continent, initiated a new chapter of post-war history...