Word: pactomania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support to a shaky new Nationalist government in South Viet Nam, helped negotiate and set up a brand new Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ("Pactomania," said the critics) that has faced up to Communism in Southeast Asia ever since...
Republican "pactomania," he added, has also fostered a false feeling of security, especially in such cases as SEATO, which lack strong military forces. "The Republicans seem to think," he said, "that the mere signing of a paper constitutes adequate security...