Chairman J. W. Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday denounced trade unions for picketing the Egyptian freighter Cleopatra and deplored the action of a “pressure group” he accused of undermining American foreign policy.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Fulbright alleged that undue pressures were being imposed on U.S. Near Eastern policy by elements in the United States. He said the picketing of the Cleopatra in New York Harbor was “calculated to the wart the objectives of our Government’s foreign policy” and represented interference with “peace and stability in the Near East.”
Senator Fulbright expressed a view that the United Arab Republic’s restrictions on certain shipping were being appropriately handled by the United States and United Nations “through diplomatic channels.” He characterized the picketing of the Cleopatra as an attempt” to force political action in an area of most delicate international negotiations.
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