TY  - JOUR
SP  - 65
VL  - 38
N1  - © 2025, Hector Mackenzie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
IS  - 1
SN  - 23970928
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2025v38.006
JF  - London Journal of Canadian Studies
A1  - Mackenzie, H.
TI  - The North Atlantic Triangle and North Atlantic Treaty: A Canadian Perspective on the ABC Security Conversations of March-April 1948
EP  - 92
AV  - public
Y1  - 2025///
ID  - discovery10205736
N2  - This article examines the secret ?security conversations? between the United States, Britain and Canada that took place in Washington, DC, between 22 March and 1 April 1949. These ?ABC? talks produced a document known as the Pentagon Paper, which played an important part in the origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For reasons of both foreign policy and domestic politics, the Pentagon Paper was portrayed at the time as essentially an American document but in fact it had been considerably influenced by Lester Pearson, representing Ottawa, as well as by Gladwyn Jebb and the British Foreign Office. The ABC security talks therefore provide an example of the significance of the North Atlantic Triangle in the immediate post-war period that witnessed the emergence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a response to Soviet Communism.
KW  - Canada
KW  -  North Atlantic Triangle
KW  -  ABC talks
KW  -  Mackenzie King
KW  -  Pentagon Paper
KW  -  Lester Pearson
KW  -  Gladwyn Jebb
ER  -