Word: seato
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...gained from leadership of the Labor delegation to China. It is ironical that Attlee's trip, much criticized in the United States, undoubtedly helped him to persuade the Party to back American policy in Europe. His popularity was evident when he opened the Conference battle on the endorsement of SEATO. The Times reported, that, "Speaking without a text he was cool, clear and confident, and he had many things to say which his audience wanted to hear. They were delighted, for instance, with a suggestion that Chiang Kai-shek and his immediate adherents should be retired to some safe place...
Over cocktails after the signing, the question arose as to what to call the pact. The word SEATO (variously pronounced "seetoe," "see-aytoe" or "saytoe") had been discarded from the first day of the conference, the feeling being that the word was too reminiscent of NATO-and this was no NATO. It envisions no common commander, or even, at this point, a secretariat. Official name of the pact is the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty; but how could anyone pronounce SEACDT? "Why not," suggested U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "call it the Manila Pact?" And when Philippine President...
...Force Constellation named the Dewdrop, Secretary Dulles arrived last week in Manila for the eight-power conference that would try to work out a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). Although he is the most extensively traveled U.S. Secretary of State in history, Dulles had not been in the Philippines since 1950. He emerged from the plane smiling but somewhat disheveled, to receive a 19-gun salute. This, he said, would be "one of the most important international conferences of our time...
...meeting was important, no doubt, and the importance was enhanced by recent free-world defeats in Indo-China, Geneva and Paris (which Dulles did not allude to). But SEATO was beset by a cloud of its own difficulties and handicaps...
...strong for those who stayed away, was too weak for some who came. The American draft contained no provision for automatic action in case of aggression, as NATO does, but provides for emergency consultation and measures by each nation within its constitutional bounds. Dulles explained that, for SEATO, he could not persuade Congress to ratify a NATO-style treaty...