Word: seato
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...pact that brought them together is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (which the U.S. State Department would like to have called the Manila Pact, though popular usage persistently makes it SEATO). It was formally ratified and put into force in Manila last week, uniting three stoutly anti-Communist Asian nations-Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan-with powerful overseas friends: the U.S., Britain. France, Australia and New Zealand. Meeting in Bangkok, the eight will...
...Keep an eye on Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam, which are not treaty members but whose independence is declared to be a specific objective of SEATO...
Last week, when the SEATO treaty came up before the U.S. Senate, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley declared that the Asian signatories† "have uttered a cry of faith in their own destiny, and a defiant proclamation of their own conviction in the eternal worth of the individual man." But North Dakota's Bill Langer cried: "If such a treaty had been in force among the nations of Europe at the time of the Revolutionary War, the U.S. would still belong to Great Britain." This seemed to prove that everybody except Langer has learned some lessons from George...
...gained from leadership of the Labor delegation to China. It is ironical that Attlee's trip, much criticized in the United States, undoubtedly helped him to persuade the Party to back American policy in Europe. His popularity was evident when he opened the Conference battle on the endorsement of SEATO. The Times reported, that, "Speaking without a text he was cool, clear and confident, and he had many things to say which his audience wanted to hear. They were delighted, for instance, with a suggestion that Chiang Kai-shek and his immediate adherents should be retired to some safe place...
Over cocktails after the signing, the question arose as to what to call the pact. The word SEATO (variously pronounced "seetoe," "see-aytoe" or "saytoe") had been discarded from the first day of the conference, the feeling being that the word was too reminiscent of NATO-and this was no NATO. It envisions no common commander, or even, at this point, a secretariat. Official name of the pact is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty; but how could anyone pronounce SEACDT? "Why not," suggested U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "call it the Manila Pact?" And when Philippine President...