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...attempt to bolster some points of strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Dulles considered ways to promote new collective action against the new Communist economic offensive. Before the session was over, the SEATO council had agreed to appoint an economic officer to speed work in that field, and had pledged not only to fight aggression and subversion but also to "press forward with national and international programs to raise standards of-living in the treaty area." This was less than some members...
...long, narrow room in Karachi, protected against the heat by 15 air conditioners and a dozen ceiling fans, Dulles conferred with the seven other partners of SEATO (the South East Asia Treaty Organization). All agreed that their emphasis should now be on economic aid. In the past two years the three Asian members of the alliance (Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand) had received from the U.S. alone $300 million in economic aid. Dulles told them they were in line to receive aid at an even higher rate, but reminded the partners that they still needed to keep their defenses...
Never Again! The West's foreign ministers did not take all this sitting down. Instead, they did what foreign ministers now do when they get in a jam: hop a plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed...
...Together. Also flying toward Karachi at week's end were France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Between sessions with SEATO's other five foreign ministers, the Big Three plan to confer on the Middle East. There the troubles were not, by any means, all of Russia's making, though the Russians are ready to profit from the divisions and hatreds...
Pineau pointed to SEATO's recent naval and military maneuvers off Thailand. "Do you really think that, in this atomic era, this handful of ships will give the impression that the West is the leader of the world? The Bulganin-Khrushchev tour of India was much more important. If the West does not make an effort in the direction of propositions of peace, we shall be beaten first on the field of propaganda and then on that of policy...