FULBRIGHT EXPANDS ON HIS VIEWS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920146-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 146
• Publication Date: April 3, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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MIAMI HERALD APR 3 19
I to oppose.Castro are largely point'
Steps by the Unif6d States alone
aess. . .
elieve it. is helpful for the
people to know, what the issues ? of ',
By '.ytt,LIIAM It. 11TACKA3'l (Owing to changed circurh- cZ - You stirred qulte an'
Miami Her,Id-ChIcaoo 0811Y .News Wire Stances) ~ I have not been as uproar In yoiir remarks about'
WASHINGTON - Sen.;7. able to influence the develop- 'Cuba.
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' meat
of y as a
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ol
t William I
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n'hrl);ht (D., Ark. the
emts are nog.
appears ! o lip' as little startled in such a o large cra
by the interest created by his majority
speech last yveek on U.S: I they'll probably be able to
foreign policy. prevail whether or not I.
The speech was planned as agree.
on f th f it
e
say, not _what I have heca ;;
said to have' said. That is,
that Cuba' is not a great' dan-
ger to the United States but
is to Latin America.
o reviews o PO cy f R,-- What were your.alms I wanted to distinguish the
trends he has/delivered every fin Faking this speech and did present from the time when
s]x months or so, he said. you anticipate. the ir}tercat Cuba was a danger directly
."This one just cuaght more, and c o n t r o, v o r s y it hap to, the United, States, under'
attention than most, he said , .,, stirred" _the missile situation. A large
,` . The major purpose, he s -- l
e A '-' f bc1'r~ i i. is helpful number of editorial writers
added wa? to encoura
g
fol the _ r;in,cnt and the and other critics ignored my,
g' eater public discussion of," statement that Cuba does:
foreign polio ~ienpie to 1. now
. what the t'>c
issues of the moment 'are.. i continue to pose a danger to
Here, .in question and an ,. - have tried to make cueh ray Latin America.
A .-- Merpbers of the corm- were addressed to the people should now ask the American;
',mittee are exposed to a great rather than the administra- foreign ministers to approve?
man; briefings from people tion. ' 11 ULBRIGHT the report. Then measures
in all wn]ks of.life. Any men- I was seeking to stimulate' , . `legal measures -,could be
' bcr of the committee should ! debate .: Beginning With Chairman J. William taken,
have more acgnainl:ance, with the McCarthy err., it became Fulbright (D., A r k), it is-Je1'y important as we
'what's going on and, whats .; difficult for politicians or chairman of the Senate
developing (in foreign policy) State Department officials to,: Foreign Relations Commit- proceed to have the 'support
than the average man. It i$ speak frankly. the man who tee, rocked the count of the Latin American coati
perfoctly proper for. us to ;dirt was lilrcly to be attacked last week with a critical tries themselves.
. coninneut on ]t. as a "fellow traveler or 'a review of current trends
The role of t l i p . Senate is d u p e . In foreign policy. Here Some c r i t i c s of
advice and con., e n t, 112y ? The attack was on persons " Fulbright expands on his present policy toward Latin
sponclr wars an c%ercise of the ! rather than the reasonable- views views in an interview with ; America have urged adoption
Sena lie's advice function, The ;1 ners of their ideas .. .'both 11 William R. MacKaye of the of a policy of firmness,
late Son. Arthur Vandenberg Millers-Sen. Jack Miller (R., ~. Chronicle. ,saying firmness will com-
often said he wanted to he, in Iowa) and Rep. William E. d,+',., rnand respect and attention
on the take-offs as -well as. Miller (R?, N.Y.) - showed a i In
~J;4e crash landings.,;.: ::,? .4} .. bit of this by suggesting, I Latin America,
was a> appeaser , r
speech: i11is one just caught more :Cuba? We should work
attention than most. through the Organization of
What is the role of I don't think this was par !American- States. The 'OAS,
the Senate Foreign Relations titularly critical or an attack committee has now reported
ComTnittee? and its chairman, , on the administration. It was ' l on the Venezuela situation(
In the formation of U.S. for- an analysis of what we've (the Castro shipment of arms'
eign policy? been doing over the course of r. ." !to Venezuelan subversives) to
?~'? ^? ~? s vicar every six months or sd. Then how do we deal witla
ticws expressed in the Senate
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