FULBRIGHT ASSAILS EISENHOWER AS PARTISAN ON FOREIGN POLICY

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: November 1, 1960
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Fulbright Assails Eisenhower
The foreign relations chair-
man said the President must
be aware of the following:
"The evacuation of the Tachen
Islands and their abandonment
to Communist China.
"Recent events in Laos, where
a Government friendly to the
United States, and one to which
We have supplied nearly 250,-
000;000 in assistance, has been
replaced by a Government
friendly to the Communists.
"The loss of the northern half
of Vietnam to the Communists.
"The large-scale penetration
of the Communists into the
!Middle East, in Iraq, Syria, and,
as a result of our withdrawal
of the Aswan Dam, into the
United Arab Republic.
As Partisan on Foreign. Policy
By WILLIAM J. JOEDEN
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3- -The
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee said today
that President Eisenhower had
misrepresented his Administra-
tion's record in foreign affairs
during a campaigll speech in
New York last night.
Senator J. W. Fulbright, Dem-
ocrat of Arkansas, said he was
"shocked" by President Eisen-
hower's "bitterly partisan" ap-
roach. He said it represented a
break with the President's tra-
ditional nonpartisan posture re-
garding foreign policy.
The Senator said President
Eisenhower's statement seemed
{ to be "misleading and motivated
by patrisanship rather than by
due regard for the facts."
Senator Fulbright said he had
called in reporters to "keep the
record straight" and to chal-
'lenge some of the President's
remarks. Specifically, he ques-
tioned the President's statement
that there had been "no further
I gains of territory or population
by Communist imperialism in
I any area where American influ-
ence and arms were involved."
Lists World Areas
"The well-advertised influence
of the Communists in Guinea,
Ghana and in the yet unsettled
and chaotic Belgian Congo.
"And' finally, at our very
doorstep, how does one regard
the recent developments in
Cuba, where, for many years,
our arms and Influence have
been heavily involved?"
The Arkansas Senator also
took exception to President Ei-
senhower's statement that
"there seems to be only one
Individual who is bewailing
America's strength and weak-
nessc," an obvious reference to
the Democratic Presidential
candidate, Senator John F.
Kennedy.
Senator Fulbright said that
he and other Senators had been
worried about the impairment
of United States leadership in
the world "for some years." He
said high officials in the Eisen-
hower Administration had tes
tified about the loss of United
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his charge that reports of the
U. S. I. A. indicating lowered!
United States influence around
the world had been suppressed'
by the Administration.
"In truth," the Senator said,
"from the record it would ap-
pear that President Eisenhower
and Vice President Nixon are
almost alone in not worrying
about the critical nature of our
present position and the trend
In relative strength vis-a-vis the
Communists, which set in after
the first sputnik."
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