NATO neutrality 1949

NATO neutrality: When the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in April, Sweden deliberately stayed out, cementing its Cold War policy of non-alignment with either military bloc.

In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 1949 under Tage Erlander as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.

Source confidence is B: the basic event is promoted, while broader interpretation still depends on the cited source tier and later primary-source upgrades.