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(b) The grossly inadequate resources allocated by the United 

 States to the analysis of its technological resources, with particular 

 reference to their applicability toward global objectives of the 

 United States; 



(c) Diffusion of effort, both because of the number of interna- 

 tional claimants for attention and because of the absence of clearly 

 defined foreign policy in technology — in particular, policy as to the 

 proper relationship of U.S. efforts to those of other countries and 

 of international organizations; 



(d) The tendency of less-developed nations to identify the 

 U.S. mix of moral purpose and technological superiority with 

 colonialism; 



(e) The fact that too much has been expected of American 

 mone}^ and skills to 3'ield quick results through sheer volume and 

 technical virtuosity, and that too little has been said of the need 

 for patience, perseverance, and acquired insights to accommodate 

 to the psychologies of other cultures and to solve large problems 

 of development by tackling the innumerable small, everyday 

 problems. 



PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING THE CONGRESS 



In the 12th study in the series, the importance was stressed of the 

 diplomatic role of tlie Congress: "In the last analysis the Constitution 

 vests in the Congress of the United States a large share of decision- 

 making power on foreign as well as domestic affairs. Senatorial assent 

 is the sine qua non of treatymaking. The power of the purse defines 

 congressional control over all positive actions and programs of the 

 Federal Government, foreign as well as domestic. The control of 

 foreign trade and international transfers of persons, no less than the 

 regulation of Armed Forces and the right to declare war, rests in the 

 Congress." '^ 



Also, the congressional need was suggested for strengthened insti- 

 titional means to provide assistance in the following ways: 



— Sustained monitoring of executive branch compliance with 

 congressional intent in the area of scientific and technological 

 impacts on foreign policy and international relations — and vice 

 versa ; 



— ^ Assessing the present and forecasting the future diplomatic 

 environment as changes occur in response to the global spread of 

 technological innovation; 



— ^Assessing the secondary impacts and interrelationships of 

 "international" technological issues; 



— Examining the adequacy of U.S. "international" institutions 

 in the face of changes in the diplomatic environment resulting 

 from the global spread of technological innovation; 



— Structuring and making coherent the array of foreign policy 

 interactions with science and technology; and 



" U.S. CoiiRress. House. Committee on International Relations. Science and Technology 

 in the Department of State, in the series Science. Technolojiy. and American Diplomacy, 

 prepared for the Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs by Franklin 

 P. Huddle, Science Policy Research Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of 

 Congress, 1073. See vol. II, p. 1500. 



