Pacific, Be Still

Before.leaving by the front door, Dean Acheson slammed America's back door behind him. To such apprehensive nations as Australia and Korea, which had cried aloud for a Pacific pact, Secretary Acheson answered: the time was not ripe. Obviously, he was directing all his attention to Europe at the moment.

Said Acheson: "While it is true that there are serious dangers to world peace existing in the situation in Asia, it is also true, as Prime Minister Nehru of India stated to the press the other day, that a Pacific defense pact could not take shape until present internal conflicts in Asia were resolved." Secretary Acheson added crisply: "Nehru's view appears to be an objective appraisal of the actual practical possibilities at the present time."

Korea's President Syngman Rhee sadly dissented. Such conflicts might not "resolve" themselves, he said, until Communists had taken over every democratic government in the Pacific.

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