After Dulles' death, the Japanese protests over the1960 mutual security treaty ensured that Japan would never join SEATO, but little hope of an enlarged Asian pact existed even before the anti-American demonstrations in Tokyo. The Eisenhower administration had grand expectations for East Asia and the Western Pacific, but 0Dulles failed to follow his own prescription and never developed a dynamic Asian policy. Worse, the United States put fears of communism ahead of the interests and concerns of its allies and would-be friends in the region. As such,SEATO never had a chance of developing into theorganization that Dulles imagined.