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First there was NATO. Then there was SEATO. Now there was METO-the Middle East Treaty Organization...
...Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan and Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan gathered to give formal shape to the new organization. The last link in a defensive chain forged around the Communist land mass from Norway to the Philippines, it interlocks with NATO (through Turkey) in the West, with SEATO (through Pakistan) in the East...
...event of armed attack on any one of them. Between them, they have 50 standing divisions, some better than others, but all with a share of modern weapons. Through Turkey, on the west flank, they are linked with NATO; through Pakistan, on their east flank, they are linked with SEATO. Thus the Northern Tier completes a collective-security system which, with the U.S. at its center, now stretches around the earth...
Face the Nation (Sun. 10:05 p.m., CBS). Richard G. Casey, Australia's Minister for External Affairs, questioned on SEATO by members of the press...
...Recto, who, for being Foreign Minister in the Japanese occupation government, was once tried for collaboration (and acquitted), opposed U.S. policy at every turn. Recto complained at the extension of U.S. bases in the Philippines, objected that U.S. security guarantees were "vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South Viet Nam, "a despotic oligarchy" which "does not possess the most elementary attributes of sovereignty." Magsaysay, he charged, was acting as "an American puppet...