FULBRIGHT SCORES 'MORBID' CONCERN OVER U.S. SECURITY

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
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• Publication Date: April 6, 1964
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NEW YORK TIMES
fIILBRICHTSGORES
ORB1I' COiVCGRN
OVER U9S. SECURITY
Mr. Fulbright advocated a
full-scale national program to
attack human misery, including
A `Stunt' Pelting Says
PEKING, April 5 (Reuters)
expansive economic -The Chinese Communist news-
public works and, above all, (paper Jenmin Jih Pao dismissed.
education and tvaining. President Johnson, he said, today as an "election-year stunt"'l
has made a constructive start the recent speech by Senator,
with his "war on poverty," but. Fulbright calling for a new look
Mr. Fulbright described this as
"only a strt." at American foreign policy. The
___ eiefy." ? Some of this deserves priority newspaper said the speech rep-
-P, was the Senator's first"over some defense expenditures, resented no change in basic
the Senator said and all of it is U ?ted State olio toward
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Mr. Fulbright, who Is clrair-
nt:tn of the Senate Foreign Re-
'W; 'us Committee, delivered
the address that opened a week-
long symposium at the Univer-
jsity of North Carolina, The
Synlposiln`s subject is "Arms
and the Man: National Security
Says It Induces Blind FaithNventure out of Washington. Important m s p y
a, "good heal more Communist China.
since his controversial addrers'than a voyage to the moon."
in Military and Diverts about the "Myths" that governi Jagan Praises Speech
the Country's Energies discussions of foreign policy in Nixon Scores Fulbright View
the United States. Newspapers!, sppclat to The New York Times special to The Now York Times
have been divided for and! MANILA, April. 5 - Richard GEORGETOWN, 13ritish Gui:-
Ry MAX FRANKEL against that address in the . M. Nixon took sharp exception ana, April 5- -Premier Cheddi B.
Special to The New York Times Senate, but a public response of I! today to Senator Fulbright's Jagan praised Senator Ful-
more than 3,000 letters and tole- ibrigh.t last night for having
CHAPEL HILL, N. C:, April 5 last week that the
-- Senator J. W. Fulbright said grains has been running about Statement urged a revaluation of policy
4 to 1 in approval. ;Communist countries do not toward Cuba. D1'.Jag
tonight that the cold war had an also con-1 become "an excuse as well as a' In tonight's address, titled' necessarily present a unified gratulated President de Gaulle1
genuine cause" for the diversion "Individual Frecdr,m and Col- threat to the rest of the world. of France for having recognized
of national energies and rejective Security," Mr. Fulbright The former Vice President Communist China,
s rid on his arrival here from
sources. conceded that the cold war had ' ` Y- r.
The Arkansas Democrat, who had some beneficial results in Hong ikon ,: ?This kind of naive, Bundy Expresses Dissent
last week kindled a controversy stimulating ii111.e11ectual and wooolly-headed thinking is what,. McGeorge Bundy expressed
scientific achievement and in; has plagued United States policystrong disagreement yesterday
Washington with a and breaking' the shell of Amer- at times in the past." ! with Senator Fulbright over the
about what he balled myths anI
"All free peoples in I free issue of Cuba, calling it a "cen-
.c ies in American foreign ica n. isolationism (governments must stand fir;ni: ter of infection and a menace"
poli 1policy, expressed similar com But the country has paid aI
(plaints about national priorities "'high price indeed" for that1for do so what there is is no rightq, for uestion if they
about
ist domestic affairs. war, the Senator said, in the1do future Is ffreedom," a de-
Ne complained about "nor-neglect of domestic needs, in"dared at a news conference at
bid" preoccupation with thea fixation on foreign policy, in,el airport. wMr. s cosif n, in a.t-the idaa,;;ers Df Communist aggres_ the Stifling of diversity at home, tacking Senator Fulbright'a
slon abroad and subversion atin a yielding to apprehension statement about American for-
home. 't'hat preoccupation, he;and tension and in indifferences?eign policy, said that "if we
gait], did not end with the Me-i to vulgarities' in popular tasi:e, adopt this kind of line we could
Cart.hy era of a decade ago. Too neatly kmericans, Ile t be going down the road., to
h ll e been eager to deter r s,disaster.
The overriding concern with ; , ntial welfare programs Tor',
security, Senator Fulbright as-Itlle sake of security measures"
of
se,rted, produced a blind faith in,Congress, he said, "tends ? 1,0:
military, an inclination to ;over-represent those of our cit-
permit the vast military estab-17,01s who are extraordinarily
lishment to run itself, a refusal agitated about national secur-.
In Congress to supervise and, The. Senator contended that;
even debate the defense budget' armaments were only one as
properly and a "splendid indif- pest of. national security and'
fercnce" to the size and content, that safety did not automatical-
of that budget. jly increase with more axma-
mcnts. He also urged the coun-
Resources Called Wasted 'try to distinguish carefully
between "necessity and pref-i
A11 this is going on, Mr. Fut- erence" in the allocation of
bright declared, , while the resources."
nation's hunla.n resources are; Americans, he asserted, "must
country's human resources areturn some part of our thoughts
"being extravagantly wasted
and neglected." _. , _ .
turn back in on America it-`,
and our creative energies awayt
from the cold war that has en-;
gaged them for so. long and
to democratic regimes in the
Western Hemisphere.
Mr. Bundy, special assistant
to President Johnson on inter-
national security affairs, spoke'
on "Issues and .Answers," an
ABC television program. He
dissents from, the Senator's as-
sessment of the Cuban Govern-
ment as a "nuisance" rather
than a menace to the United
' States.
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