[HIGHLIGHTS] “This pact is a warning”: NATO was created on April 4, 1949

NATO was created on April 4, 1949 to counter the Soviet threat. Le Figaro welcomed NATO as an opening towards a “general conversation” “This pact is a warning: if offenses are to be committed, woe to those who commit them!” Dean Acheson, the American Secretary of State, opens the signing ceremony of the Atlantic Pact.

The Alliance, created after the Second World War, could open the way to “this general conversation of which everyone in the world feels the necessity”