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President Harry S. Truman's address on the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty upon the establishment of NATO. The President spoke at 4:30 p.m. in the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, DC. In his opening words he referred to Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom; Halvard Lange, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway; Joseph Bech, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg; Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland; Gustav Rasmussen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark; Paul-Henri Spank, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium; Dean Acheson, Secretary of State of the United States; Lester B. Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada; Robert Schuman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic; Count Carlo Sforza, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy; Dr. Dirk U. Stikker, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; and Dr. Jose Caeiro da Matta, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Portugal.