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dated September 1, 1954: Leak of SEATO Pact draft

The U.S. and Commonwealth officials conferred urgently in Washington on August 31 on the reported leakage of the American draft of the SEATO Pact. The State Department declined official comment, but it was learned that the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, went into conference with his advisers as soon as he heard of the development. A Department spokesman said that the publication of the draft — which seemed authentic as reported in a newspaper in Manila — had caused considerable concern in high American quarters. The published version of the American draft emphasises nine articles fixing the Treaty area as the general area of South-East Asia and the South-West Pacific. It includes Cambodia, Laos and the territory under the jurisdiction of the free Viet Namese Government. It provides that each Treaty party would "act to meet the common danger" in the event of Communist aggression by means of armed attack. One diplomat said the unauthorised disclosure would militate against Manila as a possible site for SEATO headquarters on the ground of poor security.

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