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Next day, at the opening of the fourth annual SEATO Council, a spatter of trouble briefly threatened to mar the shining anti-Communist surface of the eight-nation South East Asia Treaty Organization.* Pakistan's Mozaffar Ali Khan Qizil-bash briskly demanded more U.S. aid, implied that his country might turn to the Soviet Union if its demands were not met. He warned: "Distinction must be made between friends and those who sit on the fence. While the latter are the recipients of large-scale aid from both Communist and Western countries, the former have to depend on their...
...islands that half circle the great continent of Asia-Japan, Okinawa, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia-only Indonesia is not committed to the West. If, as seems possible, Sukarno leads his nation into Communism, the Communists will have made a gigantic leap across a strategic barrier. To the nations of SEATO, meeting in Manila next week, what happens in Indonesia is of vital importance...
Thailand. Elections ordered by the new strongman, Marshal Sarit, were completed last week. Fellow travelers are reeling backward, deprived of the support of Pibulsonggram, whom Sarit ousted in last September's coup. Rice is cheap and plentiful. Sarit and all major parties back Thailand's past SEATO commitments, and prospects are that the country will continue prosperous and stable...
Chundrigar promptly pledged Pakistan's continued loyalty to the anti-Communist Baghdad and SEATO Pacts. But few observers in Karachi believed that his rickety coalition could muster the strength to deal with the nation's slide toward economic chaos. A reliable U.S. ally appeared to be getting weaker, and, because of this weakness, less reliable...
...could be formed. The two leading candidates to succeed him: Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon and Finance Minister (and former ambassador to the U.S.) Syed Amjad AH. Both are firmly pro-Western, would not change Pakistan's foreign policy, which includes membership in both the Baghdad Pact and SEATO...