Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington, which has no high hopes of SEATO in any case, did not know how to react to this latest evidence of fraying in the U.S.-British bond...
After having been brought to a dead stop by defeat at Geneva, the U.S. last week began to bestir itself again in Asia. Out to seven prospective partners went copies of a new draft treaty designed to create a Southeast Asia defense coalition (SEATO). The treaty will be discussed next week at a meeting in Manila, with John Foster Dulles on hand to make the U.S. case...
Regrettably, only three Asian nations -Pakistan. Thailand and the Philippines -had accepted invitations; the others who would be present were Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand. According to the draft proposal, these SEATO powers would recognize that an armed attack against any part of the SEATO area would endanger them all, and would act to meet the common danger "in accordance with their own constitutional processes"-in other words, not automatically. In the likelier event of the Communist technique of "rotting from within," Indo-China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge...
...third plank in SEATO would be economic mutual assistance. The Thais and the Filipinos objected at once that such a SEATO was not strong enough. On the other hand, the treaty went just about as far as the British were prepared to go; the British wanted a "constructive, unhurried approach." The British even hoped that one passage in the treaty draft might be changed, leveling SEATO not against "Communist aggression" but simply against "aggression...
...cotton waistcoat, his legs wrapped spider-like in white churidhars, India's Jawaharlal Nehru expounded his foreign policy last week before the Upper House of Parliament. "If coexistence is not possible," said he, "then the only alternative is co-destruction." The U.S. proposal for a Southeast Asia Treaty (SEATO) was "likely to change the whole trend towards peace that the Geneva Conference has created . . . Probably in America the crisis of our time is supposed to be Communism v. antiCommunism. The crisis in Asia is colonialism v. anti-colonialism . . . Was the tragic history of 7½ years...