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Regrettably, only three Asian nations -Pakistan. Thailand and the Philippines -had accepted invitations; the others who would be present were Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand. According to the draft proposal, these SEATO powers would recognize that an armed attack against any part of the SEATO area would endanger them all, and would act to meet the common danger "in accordance with their own constitutional processes"-in other words, not automatically. In the likelier event of the Communist technique of "rotting from within," Indo-China-style, the SEATO powers would "consult immediately." This was hardly a firm pledge...
...volunteers had met with little success: only Pakistan and Thailand, of all the non-Communist nations on the Asian continent, agreed to come, and Pakistan had made it clear that it would merely be looking, not necessarily buying. (The other six participants: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
Acceptances: Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan...
...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 for another fight against Communist infiltration, at the convening...
Shale & Possums. Trouble came soon and often. As the 249 competing cars (including 30 different makes) streamed out of Sydney toward Brisbane early this month, small boys stoned them from the roadside. Drivers got lost when wise guys switched highway markers around. A New Zealand entrant burned his hands beating out an engine fire, and 20 cars bogged down in mud. By the time the pack passed the first check point, drivers and officials were already wrangling over penalties...