WISE COUNSEL AND PLAIN TALK AGAIN FROM SENATOR FULBRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920052-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: September 17, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Senator. Fulbright in the Senate he might
have to be invented. Time and again he
expresses the opinions . of moderation-'.
of what the likes to call "flexibility"
against . all the zigs and zags of a
foreign policy ; that seems to hiin to .
respond too much to mood and no!t enough,,,
Senator 'Fulbright's observations on our
intervention in the Dominican Republic
,`open, approval of President Johnson; But'
if the President is willing to listen to
counsels of moderation, and recent events
indicate this willingness in increasing
`. proportion, he must acknowledge the wisdom
and justice of the Senator's criticism.
Mr. Fulbright attributes what the calls the
"failure" of . our Dominican intervention
to faulty advice given the President. And in
particulaa' he warned against the tendency
,in, this country to over-react 'against any
suspicion of Communism in Latin American
efforts for social change. This attitude,
he feels, makes impossible any effective Senator Fulbright
co-operation from this country 'in the social
;;revolutions so necessary in nations to,', munism are as great in their way as the
the south of us. ' ' differences between democracies. All of
Mr. Fulbright, as he freely acknowledged, them, are not potentially deadly to us and
spoke from -hindsight. But it was informed many' of ' the people who have been l
..'.hindsight, gathered after thirteen hearings labelled Communist in . struggling Latin,'
of the Senate Committee on Foreign', American republics are home-grownreve-
Relations held -in the past two months.' lutionaries struggling to right their own'
If it can help rechart our policies, not only home-grown injustices.
in Latin America but toward the 'Western . If we are to intervene in every such "'
.world, the Senator's warning will have situation because people b,,,the,,..calls
great' value., What he is trying to tell, Communists, are in the forefront of rebel
us, after all, is that` the, word Commu-, 'movements, we have already lost touch ;
mist no longer sums ' up one monolithic with the needs and, the desperation which
evil to which we must react by instinct. are pushing. all Latin ? American tow a r d
",Che cur e., yts,- aid.. divergences _of Corn-. , change..
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