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...exercise was billed grandly as SEATO's "first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers." Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to participate. The Thais' idea was to show how fast SEATO power could come to the aid of Bangkok, in a demonstration that SEATO is no "paper tiger." The U.S. Navy called it "Operation Firm Link" and declared it was intended to "signify the close-knit ties among the SEATO nations...
Pakistan over Kashmir and the North-West Frontier, Pakistani leaders have waited for a word of public support from Washington. To them, $450 million in past U.S. military and economic aid has simply not assuaged the sudden pain. Complains Pakistan, anchor of both the SEATO and Baghdad anti-Communist pacts: the more that neutral India and Egypt play up to the Reds, the more economic aid Washington seems eager to force upon them. Last week U.S. Ambassador Horace Hildreth † went on the Pakistani radio to quote figures showing that neutral nations have received one-twelfth as much monetary...
Then Bulganin stated the objects and achievements of the trip. Said he: "The peoples of the Asian countries cannot but feel alarmed over the establishment of such aggressive military alignments as SEATO and the recently designed Baghdad pact." These, said Bulganin, were simply "a manifestation of colonialism in another form." Any enemy of these pacts could count on Russia as its friend; in particular, the Communists support India's and Afghanistan's claims against Pakistan, and, boasted Bulganin, this tactic has paid off: "When we went to India, we knew we could expect a warm welcome. But what...
Republican "pactomania," he added, has also fostered a false feeling of security, especially in such cases as SEATO, which lack strong military forces. "The Republicans seem to think," he said, "that the mere signing of a paper constitutes adequate security...
...more a psychological pact than a strategic strongpoint. Not including Britain, METO disposes in theory of nearly 850.-ooo men under arms. But Turkey's tough 500.000-man army and Pakistan's 200,-ooo are already committed to the free world's defenses (through NATO and SEATO). To the Middle East's defenses...