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
Daily Nation Daily Nation The Daily Nation is the highest circulation Kenyan independent newspaper with 170,000 copies. "The Daily Nation" was started in 1958 as a Swahili weekly called "Taifa" by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, "Taifa leo" (Swahili for "Nation today"), in January 1960. An English language edition called "Daily Nation" was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by former editor of the British "News Chronicle", Michael Curtis. The publisher was East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, which later became the Nation Media Group with