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...more secure than we were a week ago," said Australia's External Affairs Minister Richard Casey as he fixed his signature to the pact. Others felt the same way. Pakistan's bearded Sir Zafrullah Khan threw himself so heartily into the negotiations and signed the pact so casually that almost everyone forgot that Pakistan had come to Manila originally merely as an observer...
Through the 11th and 12th centuries, Burma's great empire at Pagan shone glamorously in its own context; in the 13th century, Tartary's Kublai Khan casually ordered it snuffed out. As casually as Kublai Khan, Red China's Liu Shao-chi recently marked counterrevolutionary Burma for conquest by renewed infiltration. Red China is already pulling Burma's Communist remnants back toward its border, to a "Yenan" redoubt where they can be reinforced and rearmed. Chou En-lai is pressing U Nu to sign a non-aggression pact that will help sanctify Red China...
Like a great khan bestowing gold upon some worthy vassal, Chou gave Mendès a few pieces of Chinese silk, some Chinese folk stories, richly engraved. And at Geneva's final session, the Premier of Red China took it upon himself to praise "the fine conciliatory spirit" of Mendès-France, the "praiseworthy efforts" of Molotov and Anthony Eden. "Undoubtedly," said Chou the Conqueror, "the success of this conference is tremendous...
What happened? It was not nature that changed. The land remains, the rains still fall, the rivers flow in the same measure. But under the pounding of warriors and nomads, the ancients' brilliantly intricate system of water conservation disintegrated. Hulagu Khan- and his Mongol hordes rode out of Central Asia, smashed Mesopotamia's elaborate crisscross of canals and dehydrated the Garden of Eden. The waiting Bedouin nomads advanced into the Sinai and Negeb like locusts when Roman and Byzantine authority declined. They demolished vaults, run-off canals and 300-ft. reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces...
...pact obligates the U.S. to provide arms and training assistance, obligates Karachi in turn to use the assistance for defense only, not for aggression. Explained Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan, in answer to Russian, Egyptian and Indian objections: the agreement does "not involve a military alliance between the two governments nor . . . any obligation on the part of Pakistan to provide military bases for . . . the United States." New Delhi charged that Pakistan had already promised the U.S. secret air bases (and, indeed, in event of war they could be easily arranged). But India was no longer so suspicious...