Wizje budowy bezpieczeństwa na kontynencie europejskim w latach 50. XX wieku zawarte w propozycjach rozbrojeniowych oraz w tzw. planach Adama Rapackiego, Selwyna lloyda i Cabota Lodge’a
Visions of Building Safety on the European Continent in the 1950’s Included in the Disarmament Proposals and the So-Called Plans of Adam Rapacki, Selwyn Lloyd and Cabot Lodge

Summary/Abstract: As a matter of fact, since the end of the Second World War, when the division of Europe into the states of Western Europe and Eastern Europe had been established, both sides were trying to convince the international society of the rightness of their actions for the benefit of the international safety. Whenever it was possible, the leaders of the most important countries had been trying to show the world that this is them who guard the international peace and that it is only them who take steps to eliminate military threats, in particular that one that everyone was afraid of – the nuclear war. When after the „bad political and military alliance of NATO”, other bad alliances of „ANZUS, CENTO and SEATO” appeared on the international arena, and then the „good political and military alliance of the Warsaw Pact”, the „disarmament ping pong” started. The reaction to the disarmament proposal of one side was a proposal of the other side. Actually, this ping pong lasted until the end of the bipolar division of the world. Nonetheless, the beginning of this game took place in Europe in the 1950’s. In 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s the disarmament proposals often finished with signing appropriate documentsand making their wordings effective. Most of them were to smaller or bigger extent created on the basis of wordings included in the three plans presented herein. The aim of the article is to outline the disarmament proposals put forward in the second half of the 1950’s by the representatives of the member states of the Warsaw Pact and the NATO alliance. They were the plans named after their creators: Adam Rapacki, Selwyn Lloyd and Cabot Lodge.

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