Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never Again! The West's foreign ministers did not take all this sitting down. Instead, they did what foreign ministers now do when they get in a jam: hop a plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed...
...Together. Also flying toward Karachi at week's end were France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Between sessions with SEATO's other five foreign ministers, the Big Three plan to confer on the Middle East. There the troubles were not, by any means, all of Russia's making, though the Russians are ready to profit from the divisions and hatreds...
Pineau pointed to SEATO's recent naval and military maneuvers off Thailand. "Do you really think that, in this atomic era, this handful of ships will give the impression that the West is the leader of the world? The Bulganin-Khrushchev tour of India was much more important. If the West does not make an effort in the direction of propositions of peace, we shall be beaten first on the field of propaganda and then on that of policy...
...able to do much about any of these pressing problems. He will only have a week in Washington before taking off on another of his periodical trips more than halfway around the world. He will be gone until March 21-will attend a SEATO meeting at Karachi and then in the last 10 days make one-day stops in nine other countries from India to Japan...
...European NATO standards it was a small show, but by the third day, when some 28,000 men of six nations (France and Pakistan sent only observers) marched in colorful parade through Bangkok's streets, Thai officials felt that "Operation Firm Link" had shown their people that SEATO is much more than a "paper tiger...