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While U.S. military men talked about plans for a new main line of defense in Thailand, U.S. diplomats were conferring in a dozen capitals on the terms of the long-contemplated Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Britain, meanwhile, began consultations with the Colombo powers (India, Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan and Ceylon) in the dubious hope of inducing them to join the SEATO conferees...
...nine hours Chou conferred with Burma's able Socialist Premier Nu, who had warned Nehru at the Colombo conference (TIME, May 10) that the Communists in Indo-China and in Burma's own upcountry regions were a little too close for comfort. The two ministers reportedly considered a Red China-Burma non-aggression pact, and in public they hailed their "most friendly and cordial meeting." The pro-government papers eagerly paid tribute to Red China as the Asian power "capable of keeping at bay the capitalist military machine." But in Burma, unlike India, it seemed that there were...
...Then, just two days before the conference was to begin, British Ambassador Sir Roger Ma-kins called on Dulles with bad news: he had been instructed by London not to attend. Later, Sir Roger explained that the British Foreign Office, in agreeing to the conference, had overlooked the forthcoming Colombo, Ceylon conference of Asian Premiers. A precipitate British move to promote united action in Indo-China, he said, might be disastrously interpreted at Colombo as retrograde colonialism...
...nationalist aspirations, Eden pointed out that since the war, India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have all achieved independence from Britain. "Therefore I resent and reject the suggestion that we ignore or oppose the tide of national feeling in Asia, and I ask: Where is there real national freedom-in Colombo or in Ulan Bator [capital of Outer Mongolia], in Delhi or in Pyongyang...
...Prime Ministers. Nehru's purpose: to get a South Asian vote of confidence for three of his pet projects. They were: i) an immediate cease-fire in Indo-China; 2) indefinite suspension of H-bomb tests; 3) a vote of censure against "colonialism." Nehru expected some opposition at Colombo from Pakistan's young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. But he counted on support from Burma's Thakin Nu, Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo and Ceylon's Sir John Kotalawala. All of them had recognized Red China, were trading freely with it, and had often...