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
Vice admiral Charles, Prince of Wales holds the honorary rank of vice admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. In France, "vice-amiral" is the most senior of the ranks in the French Navy; higher ranks, "vice-amiral d'escadre" and "amiral", are permanent functions, style and position (in French "rang et appellation") given to a "vice-amiral"-ranking officer. The "vice-amiral" rank used to be an OF-8 rank in NATO charts, but nowadays, it is more an OF-7 rank. The rank of "vice-amiral d'escadre" (literally, "squadron vice-admiral", with more precision, "fleet vice-admiral") equals a NATO OF-8 rank. In the "ancien régime" Navy, between 1669 and 1791. The