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The Atlantic Pact and International Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Grayson Kirk
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Current discussion about the Atlantic Pact has given a new emphasis and importance to an old controversy. Ever since the creation of the League of Nations men have disputed bitterly about the relationship of lesser groupings of states to an over-all organization. The view of President Wilson and many of his supporters was that the two were directly opposed to each other. It was argued that such limited security organizations were, in effect, alliances, that they would produce counter-alliances, a revival of the “balance of power,” and the destruction of an organization dedicated to the principle of world-wide “collective” security.

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International Organization , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , May 1949 , pp. 239 - 251
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1949

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References

1 Bourquin, Maurice, ed., Collective Security, Paris, 1936, p. 36Google Scholar.

2 United States State Department, “Collective Security in the North Atlantic Area,” Foreign Affairs Outlines 19, Department Publication 3377, 01, 1949, p. 2Google Scholar.

3 As cited by Secretary Acheson in a radio broadcast, March 18, 1949.

4 New York Times, February 15, 1949.

5 The pact begins with a preamble in which the parties “reaffirm their faith in the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations” and Article I is virtually identical with the phraseology of Article II, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Charter.

6 United States Department of State, The North Atlantic Pact, Publication 3462. General Foreign Policy Series 7, p. 5.

7 As reported in the New York Times, March 19, 1949.

page 249 note 8 Pravda and Izvestia, January 29, 1949.