Zoom in to see details of this series of photographs from an album produced for New Zealand's Ministry of External Affairs. They show External Affairs Minister Thomas Macdonald arriving in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1955 for the first meeting of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. SEATO arose from a collective defence treaty signed the previous year, which aimed to block communist advances in South-East Asia. SEATO was dissolved in 1977.
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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
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Photographs by Public Relations Department, Government of Thailand
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