Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Largely at the insistence of Britain, the pact did not include Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa. But this exclusion was, in effect, a good point for the U.S. it left the U.S. free to take its own independent action in connection with Formosa, which it has long recognized as its special responsibility. To make this point clear, Secretary Dulles flew from Manila to Formosa, rode up Grass Mountain to the residence of Chiang Kaishek. There Dulles assured the Nationalist Chinese President that his people did not stand alone. Said Dulles: "The United States is proud to stand by those...
...more secure than we were a week ago," said Australia's 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...
Over cocktails after the signing, the question arose as to what to call the pact. The word SEATO (variously pronounced "seetoe," "see-aytoe" or "saytoe") had been discarded from the first day of the conference, the feeling being that the word was too reminiscent of 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...
...Manila Pact...
...Nehru's angry view, that was what the U.S. and its partners were trying to do by signing the Manila Pact, which is another significant challenge to Nehru's claim to be the Voice of Asia. The Manila treaty, complained Nehru, is forcing protection on "countries that do not want to be protected...