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...able to do much about any of these pressing problems. He will only have a week in Washington before taking off on another of his periodical trips more than halfway around the world. He will be gone until March 21-will attend a SEATO meeting at Karachi and then in the last 10 days make one-day stops in nine other countries from India to Japan...
...roar of modern war's destroying engines shook the gilded spires and jeweled pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were staging their first joint maneuvers to show how fast they could come to the aid of their ally. A task force of U.S., British, Australian and New Zealand warships knifed northward through the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Siam. Crisp and impressive, 650 Philippine infantrymen rolled ashore from a U.S. seaplane tender in the harbor. U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars, lugging men and arms from Japan...
...European NATO standards it was a small show, but by the third day, when some 28,000 men of six nations (France and Pakistan sent only observers) marched in colorful parade through Bangkok's streets, Thai officials felt that "Operation Firm Link" had shown their people that SEATO is much more than a "paper tiger...
Last week Operation Firm Link demonstrated that the links are far from firm. The Philippines and the U.S., which had been asked long ago, would be on hand all right. But neither the Thais nor the U.S. military officials on the spot mentioned the project to the other SEATO powers until early last week-despite the fact that the SEATO council sits in Bangkok and the operation is scheduled for this week...
Instead of a show of solidarity, the air was full of complaints and refusals. Pakistanis said sulkily that the invitation had come too late for them to send troops, complained privately of being left out of the original planning. New Zealanders felt the same way. That left SEATO looking embarrassingly like an all-U.S. tiger-as critics have charged it was all along. At week's end, Australia and Britain gallantly swallowed their pride, and rustled up a handful of naval vessels to join this week's maneuvers. On its first trial run, SEATO was creaking badly...