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...Arkansas Democrat James William Fulbright is a professional man of the world. Chairman of the great Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is widely traveled, points with vast pride to the Oxford degree that he won as a Rhodes scholar, is father of the scholarship plan that bears his name and has enabled 24,000 Americans to widen their horizons in studies abroad...
...therefore, all the more astonishing that Fulbright last week came up with a gratuitous pronouncement more to be expected of an Arkansas "hawg caller" than of a responsible and influential student of world affairs. In a lengthy Senate speech discussing for eign aid, he got to talking about the U.S. balance-of-payments problem, suggested that U.S. tourists could help by touring at home instead of abroad...
Paris journalists of course had a field day with Fulbright's reference to debauchery and pocket picking. Said the Paris-Presse: "We poor Parisians know only the ordinary side of these two activities-prostitution and stealing. We were beginning to get a little bored with it all, and we're thinking of taking a little trip to the U.S.A. At Las Vegas, taking someone to the cleaners has become a work of art. They even take your pants when there's nothing else around. New Orleans seems to be the best place to hunt for sophisticated pleasure...
...says 'Don't go to the United States because Chicago is a gangster city, or to Dallas, the city of the rifle with the telescopic sight, or to Las Vegas, racket capital,' doesn't find a very big audience. Let's hope that Mr. Fulbright won't find any bigger one in America...
Historian Arnold Toynbee defended "missionary work" in the ideological struggle but insisted that man should have freedom to listen and choose; thus the right to propagandize fell well short of enforcement by military might. Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, agreed that an ideology is "a source of strength and creative action" for men and nations, but found a measure of hope in the fact that within recent years Russia and the U.S. have shown a tendency to "cut their ideologies down to size." If this spirit continues, he said, both powers may become...