Harry Truman actually said...

What we are about to do here is a neighborly act.

It is a simple document, but if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939, supported by the nations who are represented here today, I believe it wo...

We rededicate ourselves to that obligation, and propose this North Atlantic Treaty as one of the means to carry it out.

There are those who claim that this treaty is an aggressive act on the part of the nations which ring the North Atlantic.