ADLAI COMMENDS IDEAS OF FULBRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920129-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 129
• Publication Date: April 20, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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emphasis on "peaceful com-
petition," are signs of "larger
areas of agreement opening
up.
"The Soviets themselves
have been confronted with
the same sort of threat that
we haye confronted;" he said.
"This is the threat froYri Com-
munist China on their east
and on their long frontier.
foreign policy ideas set forth i This is the sort of threat that
United Nations Ambassador
Adldi Stevenson said yester-
,day that United States
foreign policy "must face the
fact-perhaps 'very gladly-
that monolithic communism
as we knew it after the war
has broken up."
Stevenson,: twice the Demo-
cratic nominee for President,
endorsed in principle the
recently by Sen. J. William
F'ulbtight (D-Ark.), chairman
for new U.S. approaches to
the Soviet Union,
Stevenson said that while
no one could forecast the
duration of the Russian-
~Chinese differences, these
differences were genuine and
were growing.
He said . the Sino?Sgviet
split, along with Russia's new
we confronted under Stalinist
Russia."
Stevenson, interviewed on
the television program "Issues
and Answers" (WMAL, ABC),
added that "even the Soviet
Union . . . has found it im-
possible to get along with
Communist C ina any longer."
Concerning Latin America,
Stevenson said he felt that
Fulbright was misunderstood
He pointed to the "very in his statement that Cuban
profound" Sino-Soviet split Premier Fidel Castro was
as one example of the need more of a nuisance than a
of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. He called
Fulbright a "genuine expert
In the field of foreign policy."
"I think he is right in that
we have to always search for
new perspectives," Stevenson
skid. "We have to always he
willing to face ugly facts and
not be diverted by agreeable
myths."
threat to the United States.
"I think what he was trying''
to point out is that we must
not be obsessed in this
country with Cuba at the ex-
pense of. ?. Latin America,"
Stevenson said. "But certainly
it goes without saying that
Cuba is a matter of greatest
concern to the United States."
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