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...William Fulbright warned last night that whatever the future course of East-West relations should turn out to be--and he said it might be very favorable for the West--the United States must remember that "the mature nation, like the mature man, is one which has made a workable accommodation between its aspirations and its limitations...
Speaking as Tufts University's 1963 Clayton Lecturer, Fulbright (D.-Ark.) made clear that he has little use for that way of thinking which sees "total victory" as the goal of all U.S. policy. But he said that through a restrained and responsible use of its power, the United States could check the spread of Communism, and could hope to "shape its destiny toward the fulfillment of the highest values of our civilization...
...Russia will follow a policy that is equally sane. Emphasizing that the Communists are unlikely to begin a nuclear war, he quoted George Kennan's observation that "the theory of the inevitability of the eventual fall of capitalism has the fortunate connotation that there is no hurry about it." Fulbright compared the Communists to Hitler's Nazi Germany, observing that "neither Stalin nor his successors have exhibited anything like the suicidal mania of Hitler's Germany...
Sens. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) have introduced exemption bills previously, and both have bills in the hopper this year. They see exemptions as only one part of a general Federal aid program for education. Spokesmen for the senators stressed that grant and loan programs are essential...
...squire of Petit Jean Mountain is also an active Republican-and in Arkansas, that's not so good. Last year, with Rockefeller as G.O.P. state chairman, the Republicans actually put up 22 candidates for the state legislature. Rockefeller personally financed campaigns against Faubus and Senator William Fulbright. All the Democrats, of course, won. But they had been given a bit of a scare, and Faubus decided to do something about...