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...foresaw no changes in U.S.-Philippine relations. Backing the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, he pledged that if needed, he would send combat troops in addition to the 100-man Philippine medical unit already there. And he called for a strengthening of economic and cultural relations among the SEATO nations...
...India policy would indicate blindness to the larger issues involved. Pakistan behaved nicely while her infant economy remained in the cradle, but now that she has grown and seeks regional markets, she finds trade with many of her Asian neighbors proscribed by U.S. edict. Although a charter member of SEATO, she finds American troops pouring into Southeast Asia without her consultation or approval. Worst of all, she finds herself dependent upon an annual AID dole which may be snatched away if she does the slightest thing naughty. Pakistan thus represents the case of the fledgling country brought to the brink...
...there, billions of dollars were poured in, and by the second five year plan, ended last year, the GNP was growing at over 6 per cent annum. Pakistan also received over two billion dollars in military aid after the she committed herself to the West in 1954 by joining SEATO. The weapons were supposedly to be used only against a possible Russian invasion through the Kyber Pass...
...most trusted friends of the U.S. until Washington began sending India arms in the wake of Red China's 1962 invasion. And, though Pakistan's resentment led to an increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both the SEATO and CENTO alliances that anchor the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern outposts of the free world's collective security system. As principal architect of that system, the U.S. is loath to see Pakistan wreck it by withdrawing in anger-particularly at a time when Charles de Gaulle threatens...
...Cement. While Nehru's India preached neutralism, Pakistan early joined every alliance in sight. It was an original member of CENTO, it belongs to SEATO, and would have joined NATO if it could have. Pakistan signed a bilateral defense treaty with the U.S. in 1954 and supplied the U.S. with the Peshawar airfield as a convenient base for U-2 spy planes flying over Russia...