Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshly-fanned Middle East crisis, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles looked over a part of the globe where he had helped put out the fires nearly three years ago. Addressing the third annual council meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization at Canberra, Australia, Dulles declared that SEATO had been successful in blocking the spread of Communism in Asia: "The increased stability in the treaty area is fully evident," e.g., in "the unity and strength developed by the Republic of Viet...
...although recent events have proved that international Communism is "a passing and not a permanent phase," Dulles warned the members of the eight-nation group (U.S., Britain, France, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan) that SEATO must maintain its posture of defense-both militarily, against the ever-present threat of Red Chinese attack, and internally, against Peking's stepped-up campaign of subversion in Southeast Asia. And for the information of the delegates, Dulles reiterated the U.S. position on the two Chinas, i.e., nonrecognition of the Chinese Communist regime, opposition to its seating in the U.N., and steadfast...
...less than three years," said John Foster Dulles, before flying off last week to a gathering of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Canberra, "SEATO has become firmly established and has made a positive contribution to peace and stability." His words were a little optimistic for an organization whose initials may sound like NATO, but unlike NATO is only a paper pact without an armed force of its own. More impressive than Dulles' words is the fact of his strenuous trip, meant to show that despite all of the demands of Europe and the Middle East, Asian defense rates...
...Asian area from Afghanistan to Burma, a territory that includes more than one-fourth of all the free world's population, SEATO partner Pakistan got almost 60% ($108 million) of U.S. funds. India, whose population is almost five times as large as Pakistan's, got a U.S. allocation of $60 million in 1956. One reason for the disparity: neutralist India chooses not to qualify for U.S. military and defense support programs...
Electioneering in the industrial city of Kanpur, Nehru explained the British and American U.N. vote to condemn India's seizure of Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) as simply a reward to Pakistan for its membership in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact. The intent, said Nehru, was "to make India change her independent policy." Then, amidst wild cheers, he cried defiantly: "India will not change her stand on Kashmir one iota under any threat...