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Washington, which has no high hopes of SEATO in any case, did not know how to react to this latest evidence of fraying in the U.S.-British bond...
After having been brought to a dead stop by defeat at Geneva, the U.S. last week began to bestir itself again in Asia. Out to seven prospective partners went copies of a new draft treaty designed to create a Southeast Asia defense coalition (SEATO). The treaty will be discussed next week at a meeting in Manila, with John Foster Dulles on hand to make the U.S. case...
Enmities & Dislikes. In the beginning, SEATO was billed as a bold plan to do for Asia what NATO did for Europe. But the sense of shared urgency is not the same; and non-Communist Asia is divided by ancient enmities and current dislikes. Before Asia's non-Communist powers can be rallied together, they must first be persuaded to sit down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with...
...SEATO reflects America's dreamy postwar passion for grand coalitions, which actually have less to recommend them than the old-fashioned diplomacy-which consisted of particular arrangements for precise ends. It is State Department doctrine to talk of SEATO as an assemblage of like-minded nations, which will be broadened (it is always hoped) to include other nations later on. But a grand flotilla of allies must travel at the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. The old-fashioned solution would be to make hard-and-fast arrangements-separately or in small groupings-with Syngman Rhee, with...
Responses last week to an Anglo-American invitation to attend a preliminary SEATO conference (probably at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital) some time early next month...