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...result of the Geneva settlement, the Communist frontier "might soon be on the southern shores of Indo-China," said Menzies. His answer: Australia will back a Southeast Asian treaty (SEATO) "with arms, with men, with ships and instruments of war, with supplies." And he would be willing to send Aussie troops up closer to the frontier, probably to Malaya. "With all the good will in the world," he said, "and with the most heartfelt desire to make an end of war, we must be ready to meet it if it comes...
...main line of defense in Thailand, U.S. diplomats were conferring in a dozen capitals on the terms of the long-contemplated Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Britain, meanwhile, began consultations with the Colombo powers (India, Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan and Ceylon) in the dubious hope of inducing them to join the SEATO conferees...
...would like to have it, would guarantee a united regional defense against further Communist penetration of Southeast Asia. Its guarantees would probably include the protection of Laos, Cambodia and South Viet Nam, although these countries, with their freedom restricted by the Geneva agreement, might not be able to join SEATO. Probable signatories: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines, possibly Burma and Ceylon. Likely conference site: Baguio, the Philippines' mountainside summer capital. Probable date of the conference: early September. The meeting will be brief, allowing enough time for the foreign ministers to hurry to New York...
Obviously glum about the defeat in Indo-China, John Foster Dulles looked into the future and thought that he saw a silver lining in SEATO. Said he: "If the free nations which have a stake in this area will now work together to avail of present opportunities in the light of past experience, then the loss of the present may lead to the gain of the future...
...told the British his decision: he was willing to associate in an Asian defense pact if everybody else joined too. By everybody Nehru apparently meant Communist China, and perhaps Russia as well:-a plan about as useful as penning up wolves with sheep. Belatedly, British foreign officials conceded that SEATO would have to get along without Nehru...