The Day the Cold War Changed.

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  • Author(s): Lomax, John
  • Source:
    Nation. 7/6/1963, Vol. 197 Issue 1, p10-12. 3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      COLD War, 1945-1991; INTERNATIONAL relations; FULBRIGHT, J. William (James William), 1905-1995; NUCLEAR weapons; RUSSIANS
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      It is said that the cold war came to an end on a certain date, signaled by the recorded specific act of a certain person; and, that professional commentators then, and for years afterwards, failed to notice it. The date was September 30, 1961, the specific act was a statement in London, England, by Senator J.W. Fulbright of Arkansas, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U. S. Senate, in which he declared that the West was partly to blame for the Berlin, Germany, stupidity and that the Russians had a legitimate concern about atomic weapons being given to Germany. They should not be given if there was any reasonable prospect of reaching some acceptable agreement with the Russians.