Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make treaties without Senate approval, but a U.S. aide explained that Dulles had, in effect, only done something like signing agreements with three nations individually. The importance of the move, said the aide, was chiefly psychological, since the U.S. is already pledged to aid Turkey under NATO, Pakistan through SEATO, and Iran under the congressional resolution known as the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...would dig for buried treasure in his father's forehead," and charged him with entering an "unholy alliance" to deliver Burma to the Communists. Nu's supporters struck back by reviling Swe and Nyein as "American stooges" who wanted to force Burma into anti-Communist blocs, including SEATO...
Things began, dashingly enough, with a deal signed with Communist Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia for small arms, jet fighters and bombers. In Djakarta. Communist and left-wing newspapers interrupted their anti-American, anti-SEATO tirades long enough to cheer wildly President Sukarno's new link with the Reds. Bands of young toughs smeared anti-U.S. slogans on the walls of the American embassy in Djakarta; Red-run delegations streamed up the embassy steps to present resolutions telling the U.S. to keep its hands off Indonesia...
Home from his trip to the SEATO Conference in Manila, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was feeling gloomy. In Manila he had been dismayed to see how successful the Russians were in getting their summit-meeting propaganda across to Asians. In Washington he found U.S. newspaper front pages giving solemn treatment to the old Russian proposals, which, in effect, were aimed at undermining the strong points of the free world. Dulles decided that it was high time to put on the record some reasons why the U.S. is dead set against going to a summit meeting on Russian terms...
...Britain, France, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam are not members, but SEATO is pledged to protect them against aggression...