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Last week Pakistan, already a member of SEATO, provided a missing link. Premier Mohammed Ali announced that his country had agreed to join a defense alliance with Britain, Turkey and Iraq...
...patronize, and others to underrate. A neutralist, he first conceived the idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour of the U.S. last year, he told everyone from President Eisenhower on down that he believes...
...acknowledged tax expert. As the current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he is the Senate's Democratic spokesman on foreign policy. And as a Southern moderate, he is on the friendliest terms with the Northern liberals, e.g., he wangled a place on the U.S. delegation to the SEATO conference for his protege, Montana's able Senator Mike Mansfield, and he offered to campaign last year for Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (who gratefully declined because he wanted a Minnesotans-only campaign...
...With Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson skillfully backing him, George has effortlessly become the outstanding figure of the 84th Congress: ¶ He led the Formosa resolution, the SEATO pact and the Paris agreements to overwhelming Senate approval. When he arose to speak on the Formosa resolution one January day, there were worried, even hostile faces in the chamber. Nearly a score of Democrats were ready for a last-ditch fight against the resolution, and several Republicans had grave doubts. By the time he sat down after a brilliant oratorical display, the opposition had been shattered. Next day the resolution passed...
...weakness . .. The Middle East is today split into hostile groups." He thought that Red China should have Formosa; he judged it "certain" that Red China will get Quemoy and Matsu. And he put it to the U.S.: "What are you planning for? The great war to happen?" The new SEATO pact signed at Manila fundamentally "upset any possibility of peace-as well as stability-in the Indo-Chinese area." Nehru accused "both blocs" of "interference" in other nations' affairs. "Even if the whole world is fighting," he went on, "we shall not go to war." M.P.s drummed on their...