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dated June 11, 1954: Asian peace talks

Mr. Richard Casey, Australian External Affairs Minister, on his arrival in Calcutta on June 9 from Sydney, told pressmen at the Dum Dum airport that he was carrying with him "something fresh" for discussion with Prime Minister Nehru in Delhi in regard to the Asian peace talks in Geneva. Mr. Casey hesitated to reveal what his proposals were, but pointed out that he would try to enlist Mr. Nehru's active support for his ideas. He would not call it a plan, but a series of points which he would clarify with the Indian Prime Minister. Later he would discuss the same with Mr. Anthony Eden and Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. Referring to the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation proposed by the United States, Mr. Casey said that Australia was certainly not against it. If there was any proposal offering a collective guarantee for South-East Asia, it must be composed of as many countries of South and South-East Asia as possible. He argued that SEATO, being after all an all-Asian affair, a joint military guarantee by all European powers alone would not be acceptable. It must contain an Asian power also.

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