METO Has Joined

Nato And Seato

THERE now is a Nato, a Meto . a Seato, through which Western Alliance against Muscovite Bloc is extended ri' through from Scotland and Nor': to the Philippines.

NATO is the North Atlaj Treaty Alliance, by which Western European Powers are lim together in the West’s most portant defensive pact.

METO is the Middle East Tit Organisation which has just tas shape, and which extends fl Southern Europe, through Tun Iraq, Persia and Western Pakis to the middle of India.

SEATO is the South East , Treaty Organisation, which can on the defensive alliance thro Ceylon, Singapore, Malaya and S into the Philippines, and of wl\ Australia, New Zealand and Urn States are the original members’

A glance at the map shows i these three “Organisations” toges create, around at least half of : Northern Hemisphere, a broad fcf of countries which have uniteo; protect Western and SoutM; Europe, Southern Asia and South Pacific against the thrus Communism of Eastern Europe, < Northern and Eastern Asia.

There is one break in the ctl at India and Burma; and, as is written, Soviet leaders Bulgn and Kruschev are in Southern A receiving the adulation of

leutralist” mobs in Afghanistan, idia and Burma.

The Russians do not like Meto, id are trying to counter it by aoing the Arab nations and mak g arms available to Egypt.