ASIAN ACCORD SUGGESTED

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31017, 24 March 1966, Page 13

ASIAN ACCORD SUGGESTED

t.V Z Press Assn.—Copyright) STORRS (Connecticut), March 23. The chairman of the United States Senate foreign relations committee, Senator J. W. Fulbright, suggested yesterday that the United States withdraw its forces from South-east Asia if China will agree to refrain from military intervention and respect the political independence of countries in that area. He said a lasting peace in South-east Asia depends far more on a settlement between the United States and China

' .than on who is to participate in a South Vietnamese Govlernment and how it is to be I formed. | “As long as China and Arne- ; rica are competitors for dominance in South-east Asia there can be no lasting peace for stability in that part of the world,” said Mr Fulbright Senator Fulbright discussed the Vietnam and China problems in a lecture prepared for a University of Connecticut audience. “Lasting Basis” “It seems to me possible that the crisis in South-east Asia can be resolved on a lasting basis by the withdrawal of American military power to the islands and waters around the coast of ' Asia coupled with a political arrangement for the neutral--1 isation of the small countries ‘ of the South-east Asian mainland . . . Thailand, Malaysia and Burma.” he said. China was fearful of United States bases on her periphery and fearful of American military power in South east Asia. Therefore, he said, “China might well be willing to purchase its removal by a commitment on her part to i abstain from military inter- ' vention.”