Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike most children, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was keenly aware that his new toy was breakable. An admirer of Nehru, the Tengku has already served notice that Malaya will not join SEATO. "For the protection of this country," said he last week, "I consider it sufficient that we enter into defense agreements with Britain." But for all his lack of enthusiasm for military pacts, Abdul Rahman is determined to clean up the Communist revolt that has plagued Malaya for the last nine years, at a cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives...
...practical political side, Diem believes that this goal can be best attained through bilateral defense pacts and cultural exchanges with his Southeast Asia neighbors. He wants to keep the shield of Western political protection, e.g., SEATO, U.S. military training missions, but believes they should be de-emphasized as much as possible in the public mind...
...Received courtesy calls from H.R.H. Marshal Sardar Shah Mahmoud Khan Ghazi, sometime (1946-53) Prime Minister of Afghanistan, and Thai Ambassador to the U.S. Pote Sarasin, soon to take off as Secretary-General of the Dulles-built, anti-Communist Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO...
...nation remains a partner of both Britain and the U.S. in SEATO. But Menzies, who last week set an Australian record in office (seven years and 106 days as Prime Minister), is not happy over U.S. policy in the Middle East, or what he regards as an American overdependence...
After the crash, the Cabinet hurriedly summoned Vice President Carlos Garcia home from Australia, where he has been attending the SEATO Conference. A nondescript politician forced on Magsaysay by the Nationalists, Garcia is unlikely to be more than a caretaker until the presidential elections, to be held this fall. Just who that successor will be, no one can predict. Magsaysay so completely dominated Philippine politics and affections that in all likelihood he would have been nominated by both parties. There was no one like him -a man in whom Filipinos saw their best, just as he always saw the best...