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...ARROGANCE OF POWER by Senator J. William Fulbright. 264 pages. Random House...
...Viet Nam presents some Americans with an unparalleled opportunity to indulge in a national habit: selfcriticism. In this expansion of three lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright raises enough dire doubts about the American character to doom a dozen Romes...
...Power confuses itself with virtue," argues Fulbright. It "tends also to take itself for omnipotence." In its attempt to "spread the gospel of democracy," he suggests, the U.S. stands in danger of overextending itself. Central to America's messianic urge is "a national mythology, cultivated in Fourth of July speeches and slick publications, which holds that we are a revolutionary society, that ours was the 'true' revolution which ought to be an inspiration for every revolutionary movement in the world." Quite the contrary is true, maintains Fulbright. America is actually an "un-revolutionary society." It fails totally...
Chairman William Fulbright sent down encouraging notes. Senator Wayne Morse amicably asked just the right leading questions and agreed enthusiastically with nearly everything the star witness said. To Secretary of State Dean Rusk, appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it must have seemed like a remembrance of days past-those halcyon, pre-Viet Nam days when he could be sure that he had a solid majority of the committee behind him. The matter under discussion, a consular treaty with the Soviet Union, might itself have been the cause of some nostalgia, for it has been waiting a long time...
Another prime target for economizers is likely to be foreign aid, for which the President will request between $3 billion and $3.5 billion, although Congress gave him only $2.94 billion last year. Some Democratic leaders, notably Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, want to restructure the whole aid effort by ending bilateral arrangements and channeling funds into such agencies as the World Bank instead. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen merely aims to cut the total. The U.S., Dirksen said during his portion of the G.O.P. address, must pay "more attention to the conservation of our own strength...