SENATOR FULBRIGHT -- NOW AND THEN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200900056-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: May 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGI Tenator Fuibright , Now and Then
Rising to new heights of irrespon- But the senator would hardly say that
sibility in his continuing attack on the Washington has become an American,
United States presence in Viet Nam, brothel. And without some more post-
Senator, Fulbright now charges that tive proof than published reports, he'
"both literally and figuratively, Saigon should not make the. statement that
.has become an American brothel." ,. Saigon has literally and figuratively,
The chairman of the Senate For- become such a brothel.
eign Relations Committee bases his''.' He should not make such an irre-
accusation on what are described as sponsible statement because his post-
published reports. He does not say - Lion in the Senate calls for at least
whether the published reports are true. a modicum of self-restraint. Senator
Presumably he neither knows nor cares..:..,'+Fulbright made this point himself in'
It is enough if they serve as another a report he issued last July after ai
club, with which to belabor his gov- November, 1964, visit to Yugoslavia.'
ernment's policy of sending American The essence of the report was reviewed'
troops to help resist the Communist, :.. In a letter to The Star on May 5 by;
.aggression. Cyril A. Zebot, professor of economics
Of course, it may be that some at. Georgetown University.
Vietnamese have found it necessary to In that report, Senator Fulbright
put their wives or daughters to work as said statements by members of Congress
bar girls "or to peddle them to Amerl- , ' have a greater capacity than most con-;
.can soldiers as mistresses." It may be gressmen realize to disrupt American M
that middle class Vietnamese families foreign policy in unconstructive and,
,have difficulty renting homes from even unintended ways. It is entirely,i
other Vietnamese because Americans proper, the senator went on, for mem-I
have driven up the rent. But the senator hers of Congress to remind themselves;
certainly knows that this is not unusual ' of this, and to remember that "they,
in ?a country at ,war. In some respects are under an obligation to exercise;
it is a fact of life in a . country which voluntary self - restraint - on delicate;
tis not at war. One finds bar girls matters of foreign. policy."
;Working in, Washington, , either ?from,. It. Is too bad, thatl!': the' Senator'
;choice or economic necessity.: Rents ' +,, 'P'ulbright of .1986 cP 1't l remember ?ai
Are high here , too, and the same may '` word that was said bythe Senator!
true' of some, places . in ; Arkaosss. rl ihttlbright o 1965.
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