As the Iron Curtain descends across Europe during the next three years it will be increasingly apparent that the primary post-War problem will not be how to keep Germany down but how to stop Communist expansionism. To some, like Churchill and Patton, the problem is already apparent. And Truman is much more in tune with the issue in contrast to Roosevelt, who seemed oblivious to it.
Hastings Ismay on the purpose of NATO: “To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.”