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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
In March 1948, in Brussels, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg signed a treaty of mutual assistance and collective defence, thus initiating a separate group of West-European states known as “Western Union.”
1 New Times, Supplement No. 6, February 2, 1949. This statement was released before the text of the Atlantic pact had been made public.