Sen. J.W. Fulbright. Arkansas Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a series of weekend speeches in Arkansas urging restraint by the Government in the affair of the U.S.S. Pueblo, recalled the Administration’s failure to take strong measures against Israel over the accidental attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, another spy ship.
In appearances at Pine Bluff, Hot Springs and Searcy, Sen. Fulbright reminded audiences that “our friends,” the Israelis, “shot a similar ship of ours almost out of the water at great loss of life.” But, said the Foreign Relations chairman, “we didn’t threaten them with atom bombs. I understand it is agreed informally to sell them more planes.”
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