History of NATO Atlantic Treaty, which was signed by US President Harry S. Truman in Washington on 4 April 1949. It included the five Treaty of Brussels states plus the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated in 1949 that the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Popular support for the Treaty was not unanimous, and some Icelanders participated in a pro-neutrality, anti-membership riot in March 1949. The creation of NATO can be seen as the primary institutional consequence of a school of thought
Horatio Nelson Lay (admiral) Staff (Warfare) and made a member of the Naval Board of Canada. He was promoted to rear admiral and assigned to Naval HQ as Vice-Chief of Naval Staff and as Chief of the Naval Staff in 1954, serving until his retirement in 1958. After retirement, he was active in the Ottawa United Appeal from 1958 to 1972. Horatio Nelson Lay (admiral) Horatio Nelson Lay (23 January 1903 in Skagway, Alaska, United States – 1988 in Perth, Ontario) was a rear admiral of the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1918 he was a Naval Cadet at the Royal Naval College of Canada.