Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India's Nehru, who had hoped to introduce his friend, Communist China's Chou Enlai, to his fellow Asians in a benevolent atmosphere, was outraged (TIME, May 2). What gave Sir John's words added weight was that he was himself a neutrlalist, opposed to SEATO though devoted to the British Commonwealth...
...distinguished Western visitors working for improved understanding were scarcely out of sight before India's Prime Minister Nehru made it clear he had not been charmed out of his old prejudices. British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd had assured him that SEATO is no threat to India. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had made a mighty effort to soothe his professed fears about the U.S.'s arming of Pakistan...
...visitors gone, Nehru spoke. The SEATO conference in Karachi "confirmed our worst apprehensions," he told the Indian Parliament, by recommending settlement of the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Said he: "A military alliance is backing one country, namely Pakistan, in its dispute with India." He pointed to the sudden rash of skirmishes on the Pakistan border. These show, he said, that Pakistan wants U.S. arms not to deter an aggressor but to settle its disputes with India "from a position of strength." Arming of Pakistan poses "a terrible problem" for India: it will force India to spend money on defense...
...meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Council of Foreign Ministers in Karachi, Dulles helped to bolster SEATO's determination to move forward on military and economic legs. In New Delhi he sought to convince Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that the U.S. is not a warmonger and would like to be a closer friend to India. In Djakarta (where the Times of Indonesia had declared only a few weeks earlier: "That man should be kept out of here, by force if necessary") Dulles' car was heckled by youths who cried, "Down with SEATO!" But when he left, after...
Last week France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, returning from the SEATO meeting in Karachi, called on Nasser to ask for his cooperation in ending France's agony in North Africa. Cairo newspapers were elated and inflated by the visit of so important a Western statesman on such a mission. In Cairo Pineau also saw Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose Radio Damascus works closely with the Voice of the Arabs and not long ago was urging Moroccan rebels to "kill those who are killing you. Spare...