FULBRIGHT BOOK: HIS NEW REALITY ON LATIN CANAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920107-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 107
• Publication Date: July 28, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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EULB I IT BOOK:
IS NEW REALITY :
ON LATIN'- CANAL...
,By The Associated Peen
WASHINGTON.
Sen. J. W. Fulbright, chair-
man of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, raises
the possibility in a new book
out today that Russia might.
join with the United States
and other nations to build
and operate a sea-level canal
across Central America.
The Arkansas Democrat
says he Is not advocating
Soviet participation in a new
canal project, but "neither do
I think it must be ruled out
as unthinkable."
He says a sea-level canal,
larger than the present Pan-
ama Canal, must be built
+' eventually.
The U. S., he declared,
should definitely consider
having the new waterway
built by a "consortium'." (a
. partnership of governments).
He then suggests that Russia
'We must
as a user of the Panama RED CHINA-,
Canal might of be a t member o jar open our minds to certain t
the consortium. realities about China, of
which the foremost is that
PEACE there -are not 'really 'two
Chinas' but only one.-Main-
As one member of the land China,. and that It-is
group, he says, the Russians ruled by Communists and
r would not be likely to disrupt likely to remain so for the
1operation of the canal, nor Indefinite future."
does he feel they would gain .. VIET NAM-The 'U. S. has
a now. base for "subversion in "no choice but to support the, '
Latin America. South Vietnamese govern-
On the positive side, he' ment and army by the most
said, the Soviets might be. effective means ? available"
strengthened in "other com-
I mitment to a peaceful status SOVIET BLOC-The idea
quo" so that through this. that the Communist bloc is a
international co-operation solid "monolith" Is the mas-
there could be a gain "for ter myth of the cold war."
world peace and stability." . Sen. Fulbright advocated
The book, "Old Myths and flexible U. S. policies directed
New Realities," published by toward individual Communist
Random House, is based on countries and an Increase In
an expansion of speeches Sen. U. S. trade with such coun-
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unrealistic Ideas about the,
state of the world and work
for "a world-wide. state of
mind in which peace Is
favored over war."
"Extreme nationalism and
dogmatic ideglogy are luxu-
ries that the human race can
no longer afford," the Senator
writes. "It must turn its
energies now to the politics,
of survival."
SPECTFIES
His specific points on major
international Issues include:
CUBA-The time is "over-
due for a candid re-evalua-
tion.. of our Cuban Policy."
The U. S. policy of economic
boycott of Cuba-defied by
various free world countries
--"is a failure as an instru-
ment for bringing about the