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...Socialists, Nye Bevan agreed with his party chief that China's Communists seemed far more relaxed than those in Russia, who all "seemed petrified with fear in the presence of Malenkov." He called again for "peaceful coexistence between the nations of the world" and sought to torpedo the SEATO conference in Manila. Somewhat irrelevantly, he added: "There are ideological differences between Communism and Socialism, just as there are between Socialism and the United States, but we do not believe these differences can be properly settled by war." When a Socialist brought up the subject of tuna fish irradiated...
Regrettably, only three Asian nations -Pakistan. Thailand and the Philippines -had accepted invitations; the others who would be present were Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand. According to the draft proposal, these SEATO powers would recognize that an armed attack against any part of the SEATO area would endanger them all, and would act to meet the common danger "in accordance with their own constitutional processes"-in other words, not automatically. In the likelier event of the Communist technique of "rotting from within," Indo-China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge...
...third plank in SEATO would be economic mutual assistance. The Thais and the Filipinos objected at once that such a SEATO was not strong enough. On the other hand, the treaty went just about as far as the British were prepared to go; the British wanted a "constructive, unhurried approach." The British even hoped that one passage in the treaty draft might be changed, leveling SEATO not against "Communist aggression" but simply against "aggression...
...cotton waistcoat, his legs wrapped spider-like in white churidhars, India's Jawaharlal Nehru expounded his foreign policy last week before the Upper House of Parliament. "If coexistence is not possible," said he, "then the only alternative is co-destruction." The U.S. proposal for a Southeast Asia Treaty (SEATO) was "likely to change the whole trend towards peace that the Geneva Conference has created . . . Probably in America the crisis of our time is supposed to be Communism v. antiCommunism. The crisis in Asia is colonialism v. anti-colonialism . . . Was the tragic history of 7½ years...
Next day Nehru spoke a little more moderately: "I have no desire . . . to moralize to anybody. I am deeply conscious of our own failings." But the Nehru line, restated by his alter ego in foreign affairs, Krishna Menon, was unchanged. SEATO is "the modern version of a protectorate," said Menon, dreamed up by imperialistic "outsiders" who were trying to dictate to the peoples of Asia...