DREARY MR. FULBRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200910020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 22, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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ens or William fullbright is the most orstaying home, retreating to an mer+can
muddled, tiresome and ineffective chairman of Gibraltar," abandoning freedom to totalitarian
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee within, hordes bent on shrinking liberties of, the, world
memory. He chews loudly on a dead bode of and defenses of the United States.
appeasement, seeking, to sabotage Vietnam' . Author of a document called "Myths and , J
policy and drum up isolationism, a thesis Realities," Mr. Fulbright utterly confuses "his -4
globally shattered at Pearl Harbor. myths, with realities. What could be more
The latest Fulbright fulmination is his woolly mythical unrealism than suggesting UN edmis-.
propdsai that Communist China be admitted Sion for Red China, when Peking has never,',
to the United Nations with Washington's ;.shown the slightest interest in getting into this
''blessing. This when Peking is the directing "peace" body? Mao would no doubt turn such
power openly supporting Red aggression in +a Proffer down cold.
South Vietnam! Senator Fulbright at various tunes has sug-
He offered his suggestion at the same time Bested the United States quit air'strikes in
Secretary of State Rusk was opposing sale, North Vietnam; 'neutralize all Southeast Asia, ...,j
of a huge, $150,000,000 steel mill bX West which would, then become a. vacuum for Com-.;;.
Germany to Communist China. munist China power grabs. He would invite
How accommodating can Fulbright get?
the terrorist Viet Cong to a peace table- J
WiXile our troops are dying in.a war, backed _ -though the Cong wants no peace table. ' .
if. not instigated by Mao China, he would re- He recommends "major concessions on both 4
ward the foe, by international accolade. This sides" in any negotiated Viet settlement. Just -;y
is a move for defeat in Vietnam. The Senator. give the brigands part of their bloody loot. We:
Is the outstanding quftnik of, Congress. would remove all.UnitedStates military power
Mr.' Futbr.ight is a'seelf-anointed liberal, who from Southeast Asia,; so China won't worry
t about us being there. Without our presence,
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Senate committee by virtue of 'seniority. He of course, all free states of Asia; would heoome y
Red dominoes:
keeps on being, elected, by voters of Arkansas, Mc. Fulbright's cloudy concept that we can
who aren't much bothered by foreign affairs sit down and reason, with Communist China is
but cling to the Senator. because he is a devout some kind of epitome In nebular conceit. But
!opponent of civil rights. This is liberalism?
above all his headline stalking is, immensely t
The Arkansas solon Is. a firm disciple of "dreary. ' ?
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domestic conservatism, as understood in his
state. The fact is, Senator Fulbright, for .all
resemble* the America Flrsterit, who were all pay little or no attention to him.
.policy.' If he Is ' a thorn in the Administration side 1
He believesybu can do business with China,,' -with' his foreign policy 'sharpshooting, the Sen- j
just as a coterie 25 years. ago argued we ator Is no major irritation Luckily for the
could do business with. Hitler, and, Tojo. He nation, the overwhelming majority of Americans
the Rhiedes polish veneered by his Ozark just. a naive meanderer. in the world of prag-
twang, is an outdated conservative, on foreign .."` matie diplomacy `
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One may perhaps assume the chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee Is sincere-