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Challenge in Manila. Back in drought-ridden Delhi, Nehru explained that his parable referred to the Chinese Communists, whom he compared with a "river of history." "One cannot stop a river, though one can build a canal," he told the Indian Press Association. "One should...
Rueful Admission. Flying home from the Manila Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles spent three hours with Chiang in Taipei. Dulles promised moral support, but would not publicly say whether the U.S. commitment to defend Formosa and the adjoining Pescadores also covers Quemoy. At week's end, Major General William C. Chase, head of the U.S. military mission to Formosa, was in Quemoy on an inspection trip...
...External Affairs Minister Richard Casey as he fixed his signature to the pact. Others felt the same way. Pakistan's bearded Sir Zafrullah Khan threw himself so heartily into the negotiations and signed the pact so casually that almost everyone forgot that Pakistan had come to Manila originally merely as an observer...
...NATO-and this was no NATO. It envisions no common commander, or even, at this point, a secretariat. Official name of the pact is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty; but how could anyone pronounce SEACDT? "Why not," suggested U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "call it the Manila Pact?" And when Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay took up the phrase in a speech, this seemed to be the winning label...
...Manila Pact...