THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, Rhode Island HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., Massachusetts BRIEN MCMAHON, Connecticut

J. W. FULBRIGHT, Arkansas

FRANCIS O. WILCOX, Chief of Staff
THORSTEN V. KALIJARVI, Staff Associate
C. C. O'DAY, Clerk

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Foreword...

CONTENTS

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MAPS

The North Atlantic area.

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The region defined by the Inter-American Treaty signed at Rio de Janeiro

on September 2, 1947.

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PART 1. TEXT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY

1. The North Atlantic Treaty, April 4, 1949.

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PART 2. DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY

2. The Constitution of the United States (excerpts pertaining to the war

and treaty making powers) -

3. The Monroe Doctrine (excerpts), December 2, 1823.

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4. The Act of Chapultepec, declarations on reciprocal assistance and

American solidarity, March 3, 1945...

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5. Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, signed at Rio de

Janeiro, September 2, 1947___

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6. The Fulbright and Connally resolutions, September 21 and November

5, 1943...

7. The United Nations Charter, articles bearing upon the North Atlantic

Treaty

8. The Yalta agreement, February 11, 1945..

9. The Potsdam agreement, August 1, 1945..

10. Draft Treaty on the Disarmament and the Demilitarization of Ger-

many, offered by the United States at Paris, April 29, 1946.

11. President Truman's message to the Congress on Greek-Turkish aid,

March 12, 1947 (excerpts)..

12. The Act to Provide for Assistance to Greece and Turkey, May 22,

1947...

13. The Dunkirk Treaty between Great Britain and France, March 4,

1947.

14. The Brussels Treaty, March 17, 1948-

A. Excerpts from the speech delivered in the House of Commons

by Rt. Hon. E. Bevin, January 22, 1948 (excerpts),

B. Treaty between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Belgium,

France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, March 17, 1948-

C. Communiqué on first meeting of the Permanent Consultative

Council

15. President Truman's address to the Congress, March 17, 1948 (ex-

cerpts).

16. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1948, April 3, 1948 (excerpts).

17. The convention for European economic cooperation, with related

documents- - - -

18. Senate Resolution 239 (Vandenberg resolution), Eightieth Congress, 2d

session, June 11, 1948 (full text and excerpts from committee report) -

19. Inaugural address of President Truman, January 20, 1949 (excerpts).

20. The North Atlantic Pact, white paper issued by the Department of

State of the United States and released on March 19, 1949.

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PART 3. THE SOVIET SYSTEM OF TREATIES OF MUTUAL ASSISTANCE, Co-
OPERATION, COLLABORATION, AND ALLIANCE AND THE SOVIET OFFICIAL
POSITION ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY

21. The Soviet treaties of mutual assistance, 1942-49, with illustrative

texts_

A. Staff note_

B. Selected treaties.

(1) Treaty of Alliance between the Union of Soviet Social-

ist Republics and the United Kingdom, May 26,

1942

(2) Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-

publics and Czechoslovakia, December 12, 1943.

(3) Treaty between Bulgaria and the Union of Soviet

Socialist Republics, March 18, 1948..

(4) Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics and the Finnish Republic, April 6, 1948-
(5) Treaty between the Polish Republic and the People's
Republic of Bulgaria, May 29, 1948..

22. Establishment of the Cominform, September 1947; communique,
declaration, and resolution as released in Belgrade, November 10,
1947__

23. The Soviet Council for Economic Mutual Assistance, Tass statement,

January 25, 1949.

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24. Official Soviet protest on the North Atlantic Treaty, March 30, 1949.

25. Statement by the foreign ministers in reply to the Union of Soviet

Socialist Republics, April 2, 1949_.

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PART 4. CHRONOLOGY

26. Chronology of major developments relating to the North Atlantic

Treaty

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