Word: seato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...
...with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
...will (see below). Instead, the Kremlin turned to the one surviving European Communist leader with a certified anti-Stalin record: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. In the Kremlin's new reckoning, Tito was a "cleanskin" who could persuade neutralist and socialist governments, and waverers in NATO and SEATO, that the Soviet change of heart is genuine...
...Southeast Asia, his SEATO is a defense treaty minus most nations in Southeast Asia. It disregards facts which Indo-China should have demonstrated--that Communism in that part of the world must be fought with something in addition to rifles, that fear of European colonialism often blinds Asians to the new colonialism of China. Moreover, by arming Pakistan, Dulles has upset the balance of power between India and Pakistan, and has forced Indian neutralism into a regrettable anti-U.S. attitude...
Close to Nehru. Bandaranaike called SEATO "pregnant with danger," reiterated his intention to establish relations with the U.S.S.R. and Red China. As for Britain's two strategic bases in Ceylon : "We are completely opposed to the concession of any bases, military or otherwise, in our country to any foreign power." To underline his neutrality, Bandaranaike told reporters that his thinking was "very close to Nehru's." Delighted, the Indian press hailed him as the "conscience of the new Asia...