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...Manila, South Viet Nam got at least some moral support from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization at its tenth anniversary conference. Summarily rejecting a call by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a "political solution"-in other words, neutralism-in South Viet Nam, the seven other SEATO powers (U.S., Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan) vowed that "the defeat of the Communist campaign is essential not only to the security of South Viet Nam but to that of Southeast Asia." They called on SEATO members to "remain prepared if necessary to take further concrete...
...rejected the protection of SEATO and seemingly pulled away from the U.S. In the next couple of years, he denounced Communism and described U.S. aid as indispensable to keep Cambodia from falling to the Reds. In 1958 he recognized Red China, and ever since then he has continued to move in a zigzag pattern-or "sawtooth," as he himself frankly calls...
...poker-faced object of these salutations, China's Premier Chou Enlai, 65, arrived by chartered KLM plane for an eight-day visit to Pakistan, a nation of 100 million people that was once solidly pro-Western and is still a member of both CENTO and SEATO, which were set up for the purpose of containing Communism. Yet since 1962, Pakistan and Red China have 1) settled their border problems, 2) signed a trade agreement, and 3) made an air treaty under which Pakistan International Airlines will begin flights to Canton and Shanghai this summer, with reciprocal rights for Chinese...
...present French contribution to NATO is token at best, and it is even more minuscule in SEATO-at the last military maneuvers in Southeast Asia, France was represented by a single observer. France refuses to take a seat in the Geneva disarmament talks and will not share the U.N.'s Congo costs. De Gaulle has been contemptuous of the U.N. since its birth, both because it has the common failing of all assemblies, which "beneath their fine speeches are ruled by the fear of action," and because its members are nations, "that is, the least impartial and the most...
White Model. Nostalgic Thais recall the glorious days when Siam's elephant corps was its dreaded force de frappe.*As a member of SEATO, Thailand nowadays sets more store by its U.S.-supplied M-24 tanks. Nonetheless, allows Colonel Damnern Lekhakul, a military historian attached to the Thai general staff, "If a war comes, we may have to rely on elephants for jungle combat...