FULBRIGHT POKES FUN AT GOLDWATER 'POLICY'

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• Publication Date: August 2, 1963
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WASHINTGTON STAR AUG 2 1963
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f ulbright Pokes. Fun
At Goldwater `Policy'
Chairman Fulbright of the
Senate Foreign Relations Corn
mittee took the, Senate floor
Communists. The Senator
thinks'at is cowardly to try to
avoid nuclear war: so do the
some of Senator Goldwater's_
recent comments on commu-,
nism and other world topics.
Observing that Senator Cold-
water has criticized any policy
of co-existence with Russia, he
wondered if Senator Goldwater
was backing a policy of "co-
annihilation."
Referring to a speech by Sen-
ator Goldwater, Senator Ful-
bright observed:
"So lucid is his discourse
that he makes us wonder what
all the fuss has been over
nuclear weapons and interna
tional tensions and unemploy-
mnent and all other stubborn
problems that perplex the
American people.
"Stop Existing"
Senator Fulbright said that
if Senator Goldwater is against
coexistence, it would follow that
he wants one side or the other,
presumably the . Communist
side, "to stop existing at once.
The problem, of course-
which the Senator has not
seen fit to comment on-is
precisely how the Communists ,
can be persuaded or coheed to
terminate their existence."
Senator- Fulbright concluded
by pointing, out that both
the United States and the So-
viet Unpossessed hydrogen'
bombs which to destroy
each Other, and that neither
Expresses Regret has the means of preventing
the other,frgm doing so.
"In the Senator's Penetrating "Under; these circumstances
analysis, all these pt'bblerns can the only alternative to co-
be made to evaporate if we will existence is mutual destruc-
only declare a 'bold` and `cou- tion," said Senator Fulbright.
rageous' policy abroad and, re- "This, perhaps, is the key to
turn to'fundamentals';it 3l le," the ,foreign policy favored by
Senator Fulbright' expressed the Senator from Arizona-a
tion or the iunaamentals ne i tiein."
would return "to.
The Arkansas Democrat said
Senator. Goldwater had gener-
ously decided that Demo-
crats are not Communists. He
thanked the Arizonan and re-
ciprocated with a belief that
"the Senator from Arizona is
not a Communist either, de-
spite the similarity of some of
his views to those of the rulers
of Communist China."
Senator Fulbright said his
was sure it was "purely coin-
cidental" that "the Senator
from Arizona is opposed to co-
existence: so are the Chinese
Communists. The Senator is
upped to the nuclear test
ban,; treaty; so are the Chinese
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