346 



ideological differences and by selfish national attacks upon the freedom we stand 

 for, it is heartening to find that there are some things that people can do together 

 with common amity. 188 



Somewhat similar sentiments were expressed by Tuve : 



Perhaps the most important result of the IGY is the demonstration that the 

 people of the Earth, despite their differences, can get together and work with 

 complete wholeheartedness in studying things which are of concern to all of us 

 and which could be of great nationalistic value if they were emphasized from a 

 selfish point of view. 187 



To participants, this international cooperative fellowship appears to 

 have been a constant source of unexpected pleasure and, to observers, 

 a constant source of amazement and surprise. Odishaw, a participant, 

 remarked how the IGY succeeded brilliantly in marshaling interna- 

 tional cooperation. 188 Roberts, another participant, remarked: 



As a result [of the IGY] we have new and powerful ties on an individual level 

 between leading scientists of many lands, mounting understanding for one another, 

 a great breach in the Iron Curtain, and a demonstration that men of many races 

 and political faiths can work together fruitfully. Even if these accomplishments 

 cannot be exactly evaluated, their meaning for the world is deep and pervasive. 181 



Wilson, also a participant, commented that: 



It is perhaps not unreasonable to maintain that the greatest achievement of 

 the IGY lay not in its remarkable technical advances, but in the demonstration 

 that scientists are good humanists, for they successfully organized a small but 

 complex segment of society which worked [and thus] helped achieve a better 

 balance between humanism and science. 190 



Chapman called the IGY the greatest example of worldwide scientific 

 cooperation in the history of our race, 191 and to Berkner the Antarctic 



Erogram of the IGY represented international collaboration of the 

 ighest type. 192 These expressions of gratification on the part of scien- 

 tists reflected their pleasure in the IGY as an international scientific 

 undertaking that had exceeded even their greatest expectations both 

 scientifically and diplomatically. But in a larger sense, underlying 

 these expressions, and sometimes openly voiced, was the further ex- 

 pectation or hope that this immense spirit of cooperation and goodwill 

 could somehow be caused to flow unimpeded into the political arena, 

 there to ease the political tensions so prevalent at the time, and pro- 

 mote peaceful coexistence among diverse political powers. The extent 

 to which these hopes were met is discussed next. 



im NSF-NAS Hearings: WY Report, p. 3. 

 •w NSF-NAS Hearings: I OY Report, p. 65. 

 im NSF-NAS Hearings: WY Report, p. 20. 

 im Roberts, "The IO Y in Retrospect," p. 263. 

 iw Wilson, New Moons, pp. 327-328. 

 '•' Sullivan, "The IQY," p. 283. 



'« Lloyd V. Berkner, "The International Geophysical Year, 1957-58: A Pattern for International Co- 

 operation in Research," Proceedings of the American Physical Society 101 (Apr. 19, 1957), p. 160. 



