Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Bulganin stated the objects and achievements of the trip. Said he: "The peoples of the Asian countries cannot but feel alarmed over the establishment of such aggressive military alignments as SEATO and the recently designed Baghdad pact." These, said Bulganin, were simply "a manifestation of colonialism in another form." Any enemy of these pacts could count on Russia as its friend; in particular, the Communists support India's and Afghanistan's claims against Pakistan, and, boasted Bulganin, this tactic has paid off: "When we went to India, we knew we could expect a warm welcome. But what...
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...
First there was NATO. Then there was SEATO. Now there was METO-the Middle East Treaty Organization...
...Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan and Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan gathered to give formal shape to the new organization. The last link in a defensive chain forged around the Communist land mass from Norway to the Philippines, it interlocks with NATO (through Turkey) in the West, with SEATO (through Pakistan) in the East...
...more a psychological pact than a strategic strongpoint. Not including Britain, METO disposes in theory of nearly 850.-ooo men under arms. But Turkey's tough 500.000-man army and Pakistan's 200,-ooo are already committed to the free world's defenses (through NATO and SEATO). To the Middle East's defenses...