FULBRIGHT SHOWS HIS SKILL AGAIN

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• Publication Date: April 1, 1964
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The significant thing about
1 the recent Fulbright full-dress
speech on United States for-
!eign policy is that its author
perfect score;
on foreign af-
fairs.
dcfe ets on do-
anesl.ic policy-
'and they are
many-the sen-
ior Senator
from Arkansas
has never gone
wrong in his
diagnosis of foreign Policy -and
his rerriedk-s for our foreign
mistakes. This is what malces'
his current prodding of his old
friend Lyndon Johnson regard-
ling Cuba, Panama and the
Cold War myth so. important
Fulbright was the only Sena-
tor who was both s m a r t
enough to find out about the
Bay of Pigs operation in ad-
vance and wise enough to.,
argue with President Kennedy
'until he was blue in the face
to try to stop it.
Ile was farsighted enotigh to
initiate the Fulbright scholar-
ships which have educated
thousands of youngsters and
contributed to better under-
standing around the world.
And he was one of the early
pioneers in molding a more
effective Voice of America and
United States Information
Service.
He was also the most effec-
tive needler of John Foster
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Dulles at a time when the late
Secretary of State was inclin.
ed to feed the American public
soothing syrup regarding Rus-
sia:,Fulbright exposed the. pho-
niness of brinksmanship and
of Dulles's out-of-date shibo-
leth of massive retaliation,
Spurring Mr. Dulles
Perhaps Fuibright's greatest
contribution was in trying to
alert, the Nation, at a time
when the Soviet was forging
far ahead of its in sputniks,
was making political progress
in the Near East, and was
pushing its own educational
system to the point where it
brought frank and surprised
"admiration from U.S. educa-
'tors.
' Secretary," Fulbright
told John 'P'oster Dulles in
November, ];957, "unless you
cone up here with some sense
of urgency, you can never get
your program through Con-
gress. You cite the`,facL that
Marshall Zhuko'v has been
fired as -a sign of--Russian
weakness. On the. contrary
that means they arc so confi-
dent of their position they
don't hesitate to fire their top
military man.
"You point out that Russia
nn a k c s 100,000 automobiles
while we snake 6 million" con-
tinued Fulbright. "Maybe they
don't need 6 million automo-
biles a year in Russia. Maybe
they are better off with 100,000
automobiles a year. Maybe our
children would be better off
with fewer automobiles, and
studying in school the way
Russian children are study-
ing
Again on Jan. 12, 1958, Ful-
l)-right made a speech as revo-
lutionary as that which he
made last week. Ise was far
ahead of the State Department
-but this time in warning it
to wake up.
"The peril of the Nation in?
creases daily because of the
way the incumbent Adminis-
tra,tion. has (lulled and con-
tinued to dull' the Nations
awarenes of the danger it
faces."
"The walls of Moscow," said
FulbrighI., on another occasion,
"are not like the walls of Jeri-
cho. They will not come ttn-
bling down even with state-
ments by John Foster Dulles.
We cannot s'in the battle for
freedom if we keep our heads
buried in the sand of igiio
ranee."
Fulbright's goading, plus the
Rockefeller brothers' report,
plus the Gaither report, plus
such books as "USA Second
Class Power?" did succeed in
waking up the United States.
As a ,result, we are now in a
position of great missile and
more friendship toward the
United States. Yugoslavia and
Rumania have voted with Uw?
United States and against Itus-?
sia inside the United Nations.
Yugoslavia participates in the
peacekeeping armies of the
U.N. which Moscow spurns.
Simultaneously, the Russian,
people themselves have be'
cone more democratic, more-
critical of their government,
more open to outside ideas,.
more friendly toward the,
united States. ?
These are things which Sen.
Fulbright has carefully watch-
ed and which were behind the
challenge he ]aid down to the
inherited foreign policy of his
old friend, Lyndon Johnson,
and the state, Department last
week. It was one of the most
important. foreign policy state-,
ments made by any Senator in
this decade, as will be discuss
ed further In this column
Thursday.
llea(ilincs aind Footnotes
President Inli nlon kept in
touch with the Senate's p:'e-l
liminary voting on civil rights!
while he was flying to Texas
for Easter
The vote to bring'
.
nuclear strength. jup the civil rights bill for for-;
ChatrgeSinSovietfloe Itrial debate was reported to
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1 t b i'
Simultaneously, conditions have changed inside the Com-
munist world, The two most
powerful members of that,
world are. engaged in a deathly
battle which., shows no signs. of
being . patcbed:.'up.. Simultane-
ously the '.,one-tune satellite
lm a once y rac io-tc
cphone
from the White House to his
plane in flight ... The Panama'
crisis hasn't slowed tip the;
traffic through the Panama'
Canal. Since the outbreak of .
violence, more ships have pass
ed through the canal than' at:
an
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ve per
d in
countries are showing more
independence of Moscow and history.
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