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A Western Union

Signed on March 17, 1948 between Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as an expansion to the previous year's defence pledge, the Dunkirk Treaty, signed between Britain and France. March 17 is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...

The Treaty of Brussels created the Western Union, a defence pact. The Treaty was aimed primarily at defending against possible German rearmament. Western Union (NYSE: WU) is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. ...

In that it was an effort towards European post-war security cooperation, the Brussels Pact was a precursor to NATO and similar to it in the sense that it promised European mutual defence. However, it greatly differed from NATO in that it envisaged a purely European mutual defence pact primarily against Germany, whereas NATO took shape the next year, on the recognition that Europe was unavoidably divided into two opposing blocks (western and communist), that the USSR was a much greater threat than the possibility of a resurgent Germany, and that western European mutual defence would have to be atlantacist (i.e. including North America). NATO 2002 Summit in Prague. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

The Pact featured cultural and social clauses, concepts for the setting up of a 'Consultative Council'. The basis for this was that a cooperation between Western nations would help stop the spread of Communism. The Treaty of Brussels was amended by the Protocol signed at Paris on 23 October 1954, which added West Germany and Italy to the Western Union. On this occasion it was renamed the Western European Union. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Membership 10 member states 6 associate member states 5 observer countries 7 associate partner countries Formation - Signed Treaty of Brussels - 17 March 1948 The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defence and security organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 with the...

The Treaty was signed by the following plenipotentiaries: The term plenipotentiary (from the Latin, plenus + potens, full + power) refers to, as a noun, a person who has, or as an adjective that confers, full powers. ...

• Prince Charles of Belgium, as reigning Prince Regent of Belgium
• French President Vincent Auriol
• Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
• King George VI of the United Kingdom

• Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium

• Georges Bidault, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Bogd Khan, Monkey Khan of Gibraltar
• Joseph Bech, Luxembourgish Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Gaston Eyskens, Belgian Minister of Finance
• Carel Godfried Willem Hendrik baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign and Imperial Affairs of the United Kingdom
• Jean de Hautecloque, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic in Brussels
• Robert Als, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Luxembourg in Brussels
• Baron Binnert Philip van Harinxma thoe Slooten, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands in Brussels
• George William Rendel, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty in Brussels

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NATO

When the division of Europe into two opposing camps became unavoidable, the threat of the USSR and Eastern Bloc became much more important than the threat of German rearmament. Unofficial Seal of the Warsaw Pact Distinguish from the Warsaw Convention, which is an agreement about airlines financial liability and the Treaty of Warsaw (1970) between West Germany and the Peoples Republic of Poland. ...

Western Europe therefore sought a new mutual defence pact involving the United States, a powerful military force for such an alliance. The United States, recognising the growing threat of the USSR, was responsive to this idea.

There was therefore rapid progress on this idea, and secret meetings had already begun by the end of March, where American, Canadian and British officials negotiated over the concept. Eventually, it would lead to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation by the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington DC in 1949. NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ... Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

External links

• European Navigator The Treaty of Brussels
• History until the creation of the WEU