Domesticity, Rearmament, and the Limits of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Netherlands during the Early Cold War.

The article discusses U.S. diplomatic and propaganda efforts in the Netherlands during the early part of the Cold War. It examines U.S. efforts to gather support for European rearmament efforts of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the early 1950s. The article discusses efforts to persuade Dutch women to support rearmament, the concept of kitchen discourse, and the work of the organization the U.S. State Department Office of International Information and Educational Exchange (USIE).