Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brighter, and the Western principals of the Middle East drama underscored Ike's deliberate low-pressure calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a meeting of the SEATO Council; U.S. eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage, and the world marks...
Gaitskell questioned the value of two of the alliances set up with uncommitted countries. While he approved the military implications of the so-called "northern tier" agreement, he criticized attempts to make it into an entire Middle Eastern policy by tying economic aid to it. He also hit the SEATO agreement as a "paper pact," without military effectiveness...
...close eye on costs ("I do not agree with those who argue that U.S. leadership requires us to spend billions simply to prove that we are more generous than the Russians"). In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower named him a delegate to the Southeast Asia Conference that resulted in the SEATO pact...
...present, this administration has no African policy at all; its Middle Eastern policy has crumbled; its Asian policy is discredited by the absence of a new understanding with China and its dependence upon SEATO; its South American policy has failed to progress from paper resolutions to real economic cooperation; and its European policy has failed, utterly, to retain the confidence of key allies who were forced by the lack of firm U.S. leadership to take matters into their own intemperate hands. This is a policy of no-policy, and deserves repudiation...
Foreign Policy. Both support self-determination for all peoples, freedom for Communist satellites, U.S. aid for underdeveloped countries, a strong United Nations, an unequivocal ban on U.N. membership for Red China, regional mutual security pacts such as NATO and SEATO, the Good Neighbor policy, bipartisan conduct of foreign affairs, a release of U.S. prisoners in China, and reciprocal trade hedged by selective but vaguely defined protective tariffs. At issue: in the explosive Middle East, the Democrats advocate sale of "defensive weapons" to Israel; the Republicans pledge themselves to "support the independence of Israel against armed aggression...