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...markedly different views seem evident [at Manila]. The Philippines, Thailand, Australia and, somewhat more mildly, New Zealand, have shown a preference for a strong security organization based on a NATO-like defensive military alliance. The United Kingdom and France, with tacit if reluctant U.S. consent, prefer a loose treaty of mutual defense subject to the constitutional processes of each participating state. The U.S. is caught between the two contradictory positions held on the one hand by its best friends in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, and on the other by two of its outstanding allies in Europe...
...nothing comes out of Manila except a watered-down version of existing mutual defense treaties between Australia and the U.S., and between the Philippines and the U.S., then it might have been better to have attempted no further diplomatic moves. To indulge in too much sound and fury which signifies nothing to the Communists would only be to arouse their mockery and contempt. We need to do three things in Southeast Asia...
...long-range success of the Manila conference will depend upon the degree of American support for these proposals...
...agreed with his party chief that China's Communists seemed far more relaxed than those in Russia, who all "seemed petrified with fear in the presence of Malenkov." He called again for "peaceful coexistence between the nations of the world" and sought to torpedo the SEATO conference in Manila. Somewhat irrelevantly, he added: "There are ideological differences between Communism and Socialism, just as there are between Socialism and the United States, but we do not believe these differences can be properly settled by war." When a Socialist brought up the subject of tuna fish irradiated by H-bombs that...
...Force Constellation named the Dewdrop, Secretary Dulles arrived last week in Manila for the eight-power conference that would try to work out a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). Although he is the most extensively traveled U.S. Secretary of State in history, Dulles had not been in the Philippines since 1950. He emerged from the plane smiling but somewhat disheveled, to receive a 19-gun salute. This, he said, would be "one of the most important international conferences of our time...