The Lives of SEATOExamines the background of SEATO, noting that the organization's "usefulness as a weather-vane of its members' shifting security priorities goes to the very origins..." traces developments since its coming into being on 8 September 1954 to the decision on 24 September 1975 to phase it out of existence within two years. A concluding section looks at the consequences in the future. |
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