Word: seato
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...Prosecution. Attlee plainly disliked it, but in his thin, waspish voice, he built up a case against the burly Welshman that could not be controverted. Bevan, said his leader, had publicly decried his party's support for the SEATO pact, West German rearmament, and disputed Attlee's endorsement of NATO's nuclear strategy...
...political progress, he cited the example of the little Indo-China kingdom of Laos, plagued by Communist-supported "disloyal elements." The government of Laos is "worried, lest, if it suppresses the Communists within, it will be struck by the Communists from without." But, he explained, if the U.S., through SEATO, promises protection from aggression, Laos can turn its full attention to putting down subversion...
...Ambassador to Thailand John Peurifoy, a career man who has ironed out messy situations in Greece and Guatemala, will take on, as an additional task, that of U.S. representative on the SEATO defense council at Bangkok. The job, equivalent to the NATO post to which ex-Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins was recently appointed, may become even more important, since the SEATO area, more than Europe, depends on the U.S. for its defense...
...SEATO's first job is to bolster the Indo-China nations of South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, and to provide them with sufficient armed forces to fight infiltration and establish order...
...Ultimately, SEATO could become the hard core of a grand anti-Communist alliance of the Pacific, embracing all the nations linked to the U.S. by treaties and stretching from Korea's 38th parallel south to Australia and New Zealand...