FULBRIGHT 'PROBE' MAY [ ] STEAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940150-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 150
• Publication Date: May 28, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Thn hitter word 'taPPeaser"',
tic '
senate-has been auawered?ty an
almost equally emotional tgunt
from the. chairman of We Dem-
ocratic National Committee.
only a carefully eontralled
congressional investigaiton
seems capable' of bridling the
Minx left after the sum-
ble',Sehatar bCOI . uw mm tai :.GeLleral ,~
of his charge, and ended Wi tin tat~neAat osA
this comment: thur issued a e
? "1 am ddltQet4 L4 that *0 #ena'' the Chines' Communists ind
,.~ hi? t.iau...:ne . tO'carrv an Trod
Votiel lttAaUon$
ittee' under foritiei Senator {
Connally (D) of Texas and,.
Armed Senatorr Rich-
18-maunder
of Vin) Georgia;
ttatemenL: wArthtu?
The McCarth days, s*Mtd ' An outbtlist of. rage resulted,
back 'again. ? furnishing amm;inition for bit-, Fortunately, calm Words came ter tMrt1gse warfare deaigped?
Senator FulbLigltt, backed he
to destroy the4)emocrats 1
from by Reppbfican $t*iLator. George late Senatpr Robert- A. Taf( of -:
D. Aiken of yeL'mont, ,a fellow Ohio and other , Aeppublicana
member of the 17:Lnao Foreign aped that General MacArthur.,,. '
Relations Committee. {11 Demo- should be invited to ad4resa`,, ?
Cheerlcrovrds I net
oats; a Republicans). Congress:
York, and". s ~~,ly;yY 4
Senetos Fulbritht deplored N
him in Chicago.MI,
the Scott attack itad wash l r f' .
?a reasonable, t . f!a~r.?m ri-d stn - . `..
a steal of , a..
quiet inquiey." Itorfuaa iy,
e atei by
Senator, Aileen with dr!', the firer to lvh
r
y be
It
name-%.
mit fiasco at Paris and the U-2
incident. ._.d-.,...4t,,., 1, nnw
W
.
to be guided by Senator J.
F'uibright (D) of ? Arkansas;
wriom most senators consider
ideally fitted fcftthe i.ob.
.Washington likens the. situa-
tion of the 'inveitigation jf the
dismissal of-Gen. Doug{as Mac-
nt Truman in
id
e
1951, in the midst of the Korean
safetArthur by Pres
War.
? Safety Valve, Needfd,
?
ltere again, an explosive mix
ture of world tension and do-
y
mestic politics needs a safe
e
valve. Significantly enou h, th
ma
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said.
the Y
nkee humor
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hear
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a
,
b
b
e all right to ,
o+e-,r--
MacArthur earing, wuu not
directly open to the press, ' but but I think wea~r >rhootiattha
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ill be screened w-too close tat-tb#>gas works to {I
w
~ca txi,
tied senators May 28 bYiaskin4 reful inquiry. I'dd.
tevait oa an
of ie4ui van -.
t Adlai E
t
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thi
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yp
s
tha
how
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. Senator John F. Kennedy of hurt anyone. I. should,
Massachusetts comt. before edtht, 'be helpful 'in thf 1 .
the curse of suspicion, oc +r- + - U1ytLley`~mHi
p ascnientrr" This pofhted 'bo art inquiry]
f he' charge created' extraordi-
one like the ingttily' a
'
the
s nary hi ss, disclo ee
d
se in the now is forthco '
scornful l veto retool by Senator Stu- The politic ate in. 1931
i
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l
:
f Missour
art Symington o
even more passionate than
am consoled by the s way
ource from toda"e
%k'hirh they came." nrillm"t; audacious, and'iraf-
, l ." I. ill tht Aiy. in a Ion- -< T_ ti'' --
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