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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
1948 and 1949 were critical years of decision for many European nations caught in a web of events of such significance and suddenness as to call into question in a matter of months political traditions and concepts whose roots reached well back into die nineteenth century. Faced with the expanding east-west conflict, many countries felt themselves not only endangered and forced to look to their military defenses, but also obliged to choose one side or the other in die developing struggle.
1 I am indebted to Magister John Danstrup of Copenhagen for much of the background material which was provided in a series of lectures at the University of Copenhagen during the 1954–1955 academic term.
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