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guards, ocean exploitation, space technology and communications, and water 

 management are areas in which the natural and social sciences meet, and they 

 offer major opportunities for international programs. Wider use of forums, such 

 as this today, to bring the international problems of science and technologj^ 

 before learned men from both broad areas can assist in finding the solutions. 



As to our approach to this kind of international cooperation, my points were 

 thi-ee. We can make better use of new techniques for technological forecasting 

 as an input to foreign policy judgments. New understandings and mutual respect 

 between the physical sciences and the social sciences are prerequisites if the gap 

 between them is to be completely closed. We must have programs of international 

 scientific and technical cooperation on two levels: with the advanced nations in 

 understanding and controlling the total environment; and with those nations in 

 assisting the material progress of the developing nations. 



Our future no longer stands in the wings. Alan's needs and his competence 

 have both reached dimensions which can no longer be ignored. The scientific 

 revolution has arrived — live, and in color. W'e cannot clearly foresee the advances, 

 discoveries and innovations which lie ahead, but the uses .to which we put the 

 new knowledge in our human relationships may well be critical.^^^ 



A feature of this conference was the presence of six foreign guest 

 panehsts who described science organization and issues in theii' coun- 

 tries (Brazil, Switzerland, Netherlands, Japan, Norway, and India), 

 Again in 1968 the theme of the Panel was international — Applied 

 Science and the World Economy — with four papers by foreign guest 

 speakers;^"* the keynote address was delivered b}^ George D. Woods, 

 president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop- 

 ment, The thrust of this meeting was the strengthening of the world 

 economy. As Barbara Ward summed up the problem : 



We shall not reverse this trend by inaction. On the contrarj^, drift is carrying 

 us on towards the rapids. Our need is rather, as Mr. George Woods has proposed, 

 to call on the best expert advice to advise our governments and help them work 

 out the implications of the world's dilemmas, to assess the scale of necessary 

 action, weed out the failures, underline the successes and devise a joint strategy 

 for the future modernization and progress of our interdependent world. Only if 

 we are ready for something like the sustained practice of welfare and justice we 

 accept inside our domestic economy, are we likely to make much progress in the 

 larger task of modernizing and domesticating the whole planet. Yet if we cannot 

 do so, we must face the fact that the technology, which might have united and 

 enriched our world, is much more likely to blow it up.^"^ 



The Committee's Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Develop- 

 ment in 1970 ne.xt addressed the question of National Science Policy 

 in an extensive set of hearings.^*"^ While the main attention of wit- 

 nesses was addressed to the funding of U.S. science, the reduction in 

 m.ilitary expenditures for basic research, and support for science 

 education, a number of statements by ^\dtnesses called attention to 

 the international aspects of U.S. science policy.^*^^ The strongest 

 statem.ent on this subject was in a letter received by Chairman 

 Daddario of the subcommittee from Charles A. Lindbergh, who 

 wrote in part: 



... I think that the survival or the breakdown of our western civilization 

 is likely to depend on how intelligently we appl}' its science and technology to 



2M Panel on Science and Technology, Eighth Meeting, Oovernment, Science, and International Policy, p. 7. 



2"^ These were: Dr. Alexander King, Director for Scientiiic Affairs, Organization for Economic Coopera- 

 tion and Development, France; Dr. Jorge A. Sabato, Technology Manager, National Commission for 

 Atomic Energy, Argentina; Lady Jackson (Barbara Ward), Foreign Affairs Editor, "The Economist," 

 England; Dr. O. M. Solandt, Chairman, Science Council of Canada. 



2f5 U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Applied Science and H'orld Economy, 

 a compilation of papers prepared for the Panel on Scienc3 and Technology, Ninth Meeting, February 1968, 

 p. 19. (Committee print.) 



^i* U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Science and Astronautics, Science, Research, and Development 

 Subcommittee, Naticnal Science Policy, Hearings, yist Cong., 2nd sess., July 7, 8, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29; August 4, 

 5, 11, 12, 13; September 15-17, 1970. 963 p. 



M' Among these were President Ruben F. Mettler of TRW, Inc., p. 539: Professor W. Albert Noyes of the 

 University of Texas at Austin, p. 623; and Professor Eugene B. Skolnikofl of M.I.T., p. 683. 



