Editing Louis St. Laurent (section)

==== United Nations ====
[[File:NewfoundlandNegotiators1947.jpg|225x225px|thumb|right|St. Laurent (bottom, centre-right) and King (bottom, centre) and other delegates negotiating the entry of Newfoundland and Labrador into Confederation, 1947]]
St. Laurent, compelled by his belief that the UN would be ineffective in times of war and armed conflict without some military means to impose its will, advocated the adoption of a UN military force. This force he proposed would be used in situations that called for both tact and might to preserve peace or prevent combat. In 1956, this idea was actualized by St. Laurent and his secretary of state for external affairs, [[Lester B. Pearson]], in the development of UN peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the [[Suez Crisis]].<ref name="The United Nations Organization"/>

St. Laurent also believed that the UN was failing to provide international security from [[communism]] from the [[Soviet Union]]. He therefore proposed an Atlantic security organization that would supplement the UN. That would become reality in 1949, when the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO) was founded. St. Laurent is seen as one of the first people in power to propose such an institution.<ref name="LouisBio" />