Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to bolster some points of strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Dulles considered ways to promote new collective action against the new Communist economic offensive. Before the session was over, the SEATO council had agreed to appoint an economic officer to speed work in that field, and had pledged not only to fight aggression and subversion but also to "press forward with national and international programs to raise standards of-living in the treaty area." This was less than some members...
...long, narrow room in Karachi, protected against the heat by 15 air conditioners and a dozen ceiling fans, Dulles conferred with the seven other partners of SEATO (the South East Asia Treaty Organization). All agreed that their emphasis should now be on economic aid. In the past two years the three Asian members of the alliance (Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand) had received from the U.S. alone $300 million in economic aid. Dulles told them they were in line to receive aid at an even higher rate, but reminded the partners that they still needed to keep their defenses...
...SEATO meeting produced little but talk. But Host Pakistan, at least, had cause to feel better. Ever since the Russians took India's and Afghanistan's sides in their disputes with Pakistan, Pakistan has been looking for a little moral support from its treaty partners. The conference agreed with Dulles that SEATO's mutual defense articles guarantee Pakistan's present northwestern borders (which Afghanistan challenges), and the conference reaffirmed Pakistan's demand for a U.N. plebiscite in Kashmir...
...quiet and formal. Dulles was driven to Nehru's home, where he found the Indian Prime Minister sitting reading a book on the porch. They began a friendly but frank conversation which, with a few breaks, lasted hours longer than had been scheduled. Nehru was not happy over SEATO's references to Kashmir; Dulles replied that the U.S. was not happy about joint Indian-Soviet statements critical of Western policy...
...mentor. Last month, after a state visit to the Philippines, young Sihanouk began expressing views like those of Nehru. Angry at some heavy-handed "advising"' he had been subjected to in Manila, he charged the Philippines with participating in a U.S. plot to ensnare him into the SEATO pact (see above) and protested bitterly that while the U.S. had given the Philippines heavy farm machinery and hospitals, all Cambodia had got was "fancy automobiles and refrigerators...