FULBRIGHT STATES HIS THEME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200870029-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: January 23, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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uR ri t. Stcr2es His Theme
THE ARROGANCE OF POW- : al, in a book of the same title. has retarded rather than
ER. By Senator J. William This ds wall- if nnn dnpa not - helped what the dissenters'
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.1 over a numoer of years ~~~? ~~ ..~?, 4 .?~ ??~~ , -
Senator Fulbright of Arkansas written serves avital purpose. - criticize, brings a review of,
has advocated new and imag- It makes, or should make, -the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the,
LU:_ _ "nennle in and out of onvern- ; Cuban missile crisis, the Do-;
LLLaL.Vt uut ..tLUU V. 1.1110 ,V,.,.- -- - -- -- - ---- minican Republic affair and?
try's foreign policy. Quite ment think more deeply about
he has the problems confronting the Vietnam, among others. It!
often, it has seemed
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spoken more as a political- country ~and~the world. Out of ma
As for Vietnam. Fulbright:
as . one ., holding
as one hhigh office with ? emerge some solutions not that the search for a,
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the demands for party loyalty thought of or only diml solution there, must begin
y with the recognition that
and conformity usually associ- discernible at this time.
estions `~ nationalism and not comma-
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in the passage of years, and . u;at are offered, one of r wi- there as it is elsewhere: that.
particularly in the last session bright's major contributions in '
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became more outspoken, more.. underscoring M the - right h of . Viet Cong and Hanoi, and the
involvement (increasing an made on nim for what he nas temper of the country, at this
Senate Foreign Relations Senator is in itself evidence of indeed.
~,AQd~portion o -i tism,, a higher form of patrio- ' -by wealth, and, by the vitality
rTT Ill ppraisal, . often. . tism,' I believe, than the, and ? basic decency of its:
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scathing, was contained
n a, . -familiar rituals of national diverse population," Fulbright.
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International Studies. He . Universities where students that no other. great nation has,
??rne arrogance of rower.-- much of the agitation against '- fundamental change in 'the
whether the United States, like what has been done by thei' tions."? That, 'basically, 1;thG
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