"On the purpose of NATO: “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”"
— NATO

January 1, 1970

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See David Reynolds ed., “Introduction,” in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives (Yale University, 1994), p. 13, citing Peter Hennessy, Whitehall (London, 1989), p. 412