NEW WORLD ORDER
Seventy years ago, Western Hemisphere nations met near Rio to craft a treaty pledging mutual defense, but the pact’s true importance lay in how it inspired the design of NATO.
Hendrik Meijer is the author of the forthcoming biography Arthur Vandenberg (University of Chicago Press)
Seventy years ago, Western Hemisphere nations met near Rio to craft a treaty pledging mutual defense, but the pact’s true importance lay in how it inspired the design of NATO.