FULBRIGHT LABELS POLICY STRIDENT, AGGRESSIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200910019-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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`Strident. 'A ,o:re'ss.~.vi'
. Fulbi'i ht Labels Polie:
bright predicted, an event.
which would neither be a:
"calamity" nor "the dawn of
a peaceful world community."i
Fuibright 'called the Vlet-+
nam war a tragedy, and re=,
tralization" of the Southeast
Asian mainland. He said that
such a political settlement
should be coupled with a with-
drawal of American military
power from the mainland. .i
The Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
urged that the United States
reverse its current priorities
by identifying itself with na-
tionalism rather than merely
opposing Communism.
He warned that communism
would be able to pose as a,
friend of nationalist aspira-,
tions in Asia as long as Amer
ican military forces, are fight-1
Ing Asians there.
Fuibright said that the Ad-,,"
ministration "may be under-;
estimating the dangers of;
Chinese participation in the
Vietnam war."'
He also said that the war'
was destroying domestic Qreat;.
Society programs and ? was,
creating ."a false and striden
patriotism." . He . declared that.
"an end to the war hi Asia's
offered the only CutV. t0? thief
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(D?Ark.) criticized American
.foreign policy last night as
"strident and aggressive"-a
policy he 'described' as closer
to the spirit of Theodore
Roosevelt than of,. Abraham
Fullbright said that the
America of Lincoln and Adlai
Stevenson was "moderate and
restrained" while the Ameri-
ca of Teddy Roosevelt and
General MacArthur was "ar-
rogant" and "filled with pas-
sionate intensity." The Sen-
ator delivered the University
of Connecticut's Brien Mc-
Mahon lecture. .
"For my own part," Ful.
bright said, "I 'prefer ithe
America of Lincoln and Adlai
Stevenson "... I prefer to see
my country in the role of
sympathetic friend to huma,ni-
ty rather than its stern and
prideful schoolmaster."
l,tT said that ? U.S,
of c"-Ward ' Communist
China should "take a chance
that-China will change" into
a more moderate power. He
criticized the Administration
for seeming "wedded to the
nightmare view of China." He
also, strongly opposed any at-
tack" on China's nuclear.,faclll-
q :Communist.; China I would
1 ev ntuall~xbecome a ` tteritb@r I'war