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As the crow flies, New Hampshire’s Bretton Woods isn’t so far from Canada.
But Bretton Woods is more than a resort in the White Mountains. As the sight of the greatest achievement in the history of international economic organization, Bretton Woods is also a metaphor for understanding that national welfare is tied to global co-operation.
Measured this way, the distance between Canada and Bretton Woods is far greater than the six-hour car ride from Ottawa.
In July, 1944, more than 700 delegates from 44 countries spent three weeks in negotiations at the palatial Mount Washington Hotel, which sits in the …
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