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Abstract

President Kennedy and Senator Fulbright (Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) spoke their minds during September 1961. The President made a carefully prepared address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 25. The Senator's statement was printed in the October issue of Foreign Affairs. President Kennedy made an eamest plea for disarmament under United Nations direction as the only means of avoiding the catastrophe of a nuclear war. Senator Fulbright called for a strengthened North Atlantic Treaty Organization as the realistic approach to a power balance that would give the West a chance to hold up its end in the Cold War.

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