John Foster Dulles, the American foreign minister in 1954 when
Seato was born, and a figure unfairly perceived by some liberals as a quasi-Nazi, said in reference to despots (as opposed to popular elected leaders): 'They [despots] may be dimly perceiving a basic fact-that is, that there are limits to the powers of any ruler to indefinitely suppress the human spirit.' US foreign policy at last accepts the fact that the human spirit should be left to its own designs.
From 1967 to 1971, he denounced Pakistan's membership of
SEATO Pact.
Similarly if under
SEATO, USA took aggressive steps against China, Pakistan would not be a party to it.
Fenton (Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand) offers a study of a neglected topic: the importance of the South East Asian Treaty Organization (
SEATO) in Western defense and strategic planning during the Cold War.
by joining the Western-led alliances, the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) and the South East Asian Treaty Organization (
SEATO).
Tucker covers every significant event in US China policy from 1952 to 1960: the end of the Korean War, crises in the Taiwan Straits, the shelling of the offshore islands, treaty-building with
SEATO and the Republic of China (ROC), Chinese and US nuclear armament, mutual nuclear threats and diplomatic negotiations, the Bandung Conference, Khrushchev's Secret Speech, the Great Leap, the Sino-Soviet split--it's all here, with many details on the ins and outs and an exhaustive cast of characters.
The contest is part of KLMOs OMeet &
SeatO service, which enables people who book a KLM flight to connect with fellow passengers who may be of interest to them.
In 1950s,
SEATO and CENTO were formulated by the US to secure the Asian region from the threat of communism.
The Ambassador said Pakistan was left on its own by the United States when it was member of
SEATO and CENTO and during the crisis of 1971 and even the US passed Pressler Amendment to stop aid.