Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

American  

noun

1. SEATO.

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Example Sentences

Past efforts for an East Asian security alliance, such as the post-World War II Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to guard against Cold War-era communism, lost traction, but that was before China’s emergence as a rising superpower.

From Washington Times

He was the American military adviser to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and oversaw the American bombing campaign against North Vietnam, including missions into Cambodia and Laos.

From New York Times

The only international group conveniently at hand on whom South Viet Nam can rely is the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, made up of the U.S.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Some State Department experts argue that in the future the U.S. should place greater stress on bilateral relations; thus they foresee the eventual fading away of the ineffectual Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kissinger, and Gromyko also, seized diplomatic opportunities in some areas outside the Middle East: � Kissinger took time out from his U.N. rounds to attend the quiet burial of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the alliance founded in 1954 to contain the expansion of Communist regimes in Southeast Asia.

From Time Magazine Archive