Word: pacts
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Important Tie. In Manila Dulles and the representatives of seven other nations -Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan-had hammered out and signed a Southeast Asia defense pact. In it the U.S. agreed that an armed attack-or an attempt at internal subversion-against any of the territory covered by the pact (see FOREIGN NEWS) would be considered a threat to the "peace and safety" of the eight signatories. In the event of such an attack, each of the eight nations would be obliged "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes...
...spirit, the pact itself was an important new tie between the East and the West. Beyond that, its preamble and a separate "Pacific Charter" signed at the same time reasserted the eight nations' belief in the principles of "self-determination" and "self-government" for all nations. This thrust at colonialism unquestionably improved the U.S. and Western relationship with the Asian peoples...
Immediately, Dulles discovered that his draft of the pact, which was too strong for those who stayed away, was too weak for some who came. The American draft contained no provision for automatic action in case of aggression, as NATO does, but provides for emergency consultation and measures by each nation within its constitutional bounds. Dulles explained that, for SEATO, he could not persuade Congress to ratify a NATO-style treaty...
This week, his next European step unplotted. Secretary of State Dulles emplaned for the Philippines. At the Manila conference the U.S. will seek an agreement of some Southeast Asian nations for a collective pact against Communist aggression. This idea was generated as a reaction to the Indo-China collapse. But the defects of any possible Asian pact advertise the weakness of the anti-Communist position more than its strength (see FOREIGN NEWS). India, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia will not go to Manila. South Korea and the Chinese National ists of Formosa, which have thoroughly anti-Communist governments and fighting forces...
...Shao-chi recently marked counterrevolutionary Burma for conquest by renewed infiltration. Red China is already pulling Burma's Communist remnants back toward its border, to a "Yenan" redoubt where they can be reinforced and rearmed. Chou En-lai is pressing U Nu to sign a non-aggression pact that will help sanctify Red China's "Asia for the Asians" doc trine. Chou has invited U Nu to visit Peking, and last week U Nu accepted-without saying when he could be free...