Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event of armed attack on any one of them. Between them, they have 50 standing divisions, some better than others, but all with a share of modern weapons. Through Turkey, on the west flank, they are linked with NATO; through Pakistan, on their east flank, they are linked with SEATO. Thus the Northern Tier completes a collective-security system which, with the U.S. at its center, now stretches around the earth...
Face the Nation (Sun. 10:05 p.m., CBS). Richard G. Casey, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, questioned on SEATO by members of the press...
...Recto, who, for being Foreign Minister in the Japanese occupation government, was once tried for collaboration (and acquitted), opposed U.S. policy at every turn. Recto complained at the extension of U.S. bases in the Philippines, objected that U.S. security guarantees were "vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South Viet Nam, "a despotic oligarchy" which "does not possess the most elementary attributes of sovereignty." Magsaysay, he charged, was acting as "an American puppet...
Last week Pakistan, already a member of SEATO, provided a missing link. Premier Mohammed Ali announced that his country had agreed to join a defense alliance with Britain, Turkey and Iraq...
...patronize, and others to underrate. A neutralist, he first conceived the idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour of the U.S. last year, he told everyone from President Eisenhower on down that he believes...