North Atlantic Treaty
North Atlantic Treaty. Twelve nations joined together for mutual self-protection is the essence of the most important pact ever made. It is to protect against the aggression of the Soviet Union. It is one of the highest hopes of the west for peace. One commentator compared it with the ruins of the previous attempts at peace in the disarmament pacts of the post World War I period. They were pacts for disarmament. Disarmament failed. Now the world trusts in pacts which arm the world for...