Christian/Muslim Threadstray for Israel? WHY?...Sept. 2 - Rio Pact signed at Petropolis near Rio de Janeiro
- delegates from the U.S. and 19 Latin American countries had met since Aug. 15
- Truman made trip to Rio for the closing of the meetings "amid shouts of 'Viva Truman!'"
- the pact was "an epochal achievement in regional security" (including Argentina) that confirmed the Act of Chapultepec (without Argentina in 1945) that had multilateralized the Monroe Doctrine - an attack on one was an attack on all, and with a 2/3 vote, all would join the defense (but each nation must consent to the use of its armed forces)
- the pact created a security zone around the hemisphere, continuing the "safety belt" idea of the 1940 Panama Pact.
- the pact reaffirmed the principle of nonintervention "for any reason whatever" against each other
- "It was by all odds the most significant inter-American agreement to date. It was also the first regional defense pact, as envisioned by Article 51 of the United Nation Charter. As such, it served as both a model and a precedent for the multipower North Atlantic Treaty of 1949." (Bailey p. 807)
- The Bogota Charter of 1948 at the 9th International Conference of American States created the Organization of American States, fulfilling the 2nd goal of Chapultepec.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/truman47.html
Now, can you offer something more than "an anonymous editorial writer" to refute the above?
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