FULBRIGHT LAYS FRENCH HOSTILITY TO ALLIANCE TO POOR WAR RECORD

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Fulbright Lays Frenc..y
To Alliance to Poor mar Record
By Laurence Stern
atatf Reporter
Sen. J. William Fulbright
(D-Ark.) said yesterday France
is hostile to the Atlantic
Alliance because she Is still
"overcompensating" for hoe'
"bad performance during
World War II."
"The performance of France
during World War II was'not
very creditable," said the
Chairman of.the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee in
a television interview. As a
result French pride has been
"deeply wounded," he added.
Fubright's statement was
one of the most barbed ex
chief spokesman on foreign fits of President Kennedy's
affairs, but also by the coun- current European trip the'pos-
try's "failure to operate a self- sibility at, restoring the "Se-
governing democracy" in the verely,' shaken confidence" of
postwar' years. Atlantic Alliance members,
If is necessary to handle He said, of the President's
people ' wounded in this way voyage:, 'T don`t like .to* put its
,,with kid gloves," said Ful- in inliltary, terms, --, counter,
bright. attack-but our objective 1s- to
-Nonetheless, be warned that bring'back into'.foeus?'the `ini--
if President Charles de Gaulle
persists in championing re. penance 'of the Atlantic AUl-
strictive European Common ance."
Market tariff policies, the Fulbright also said he sees,
United States will be forced prospects ? ahead for easing
to withdraw troops from tensions between the United
Europe. States and Soviet Union.
The Arkansas Senator sin- He enumerated these
gled out stiff Common Market grounds for such hopes: In-
tariff restrictions on poultry I creasing rivalry between the
presslons yet of Congressional' as an example of the kind of
impatience with the present agricultural policy that will
'drift of Gaullist policies, J"mak'! it Impossible for us to
He spoke on the program
"Issues and Answers," over
station WAIAL-TV (ABC).
French pride: has not only
been wounded by failure in
war, continued Congress's
maintain an army in Europe
at a cost of $1 billion."
Arkansas is a major poultry
producing state.
The ArkansS Democrat said
he foresees as one of the bene-
Fulbright also ncknowl-
;edged that.the Unitr?d States
twill have to live with a Castro-
; governed. Cuba . and'the pres-
ence of,ttusstan troops In the
hemisphere "for a long time."
The only alternative, he ob-
served, 'Is full-scale invasion.
JAnd Fulbright said he sees
"no excuse" now, to mount an
offensive against Cuba, A
U. S. S. It. and China; the bur-
densome cost of arms pro-
grams both for the Eastern
and Western power blocs and,
finally, the tapering off in So-,
viet foreign aid Activities.
"I wattld hope to confirm In,
the Russian mind,'" hes,esaid, J
"that they We more In com-
mon with thfe `Western peoples
than with China."
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