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exists chart-exchang-e agreements with Canada, Western Germany, and 

 the Philippine Republic and within the month just past we have suc- 

 cessfully concluded a corresponding agreement with the Government 

 of Brazil. 



These agreements provide for the exchange of unclassified naviga- 

 tional material which could only be acquired by the United States 

 at a stupendous cost, if at all. 



Under the terms of this agreement the participating nations agree 

 to permit each other to copy each other's charts, with such modifica- 

 tion as they may wish to do, and to reproduce and sell them at the 

 cost established by the originating nation. The saving in time and 

 money to the United States and the time advantage gained in permit- 

 ting the participating countries to quickly issue to the naval and mer- 

 chant mariner new navigational charts is veiy great. The charts 

 carry an announcement that they are modified copies and that the 

 copying has been done with the consent of the other government, hence 

 it is seen that the prestige of the originating country and its financial 

 interests are fully protected. In effect, these agreements are resulting 

 in the pooling of the hydrographic ability of the countries party to 

 the agTeements to the mutual advantage of the navigators of not only 

 the two countries concerned but of third-party nations who may be 

 customers of the principles for the cartographic products. 



I should like at this point to stress very strongly that these agree- 

 ments can only be executed by and with the complete support of the 

 Director, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, inasmuch as the carto- 

 graphic material supplied to a foreign nation by the United States is 

 very often of Coast and Geodetic Survey origin. It is considered that 

 this cooperative support of the Coast and Geodetic Survey is but one 

 more indication of tlie pleasant and harmonious relation that has 

 existed between the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. 

 Navy Hydrographic Office for so many years. 



If you will permit the digression, I take pleasure in informing 

 this committee that this relationship between the two agencies has 

 often been held up as a model of friendly and efficient cooperation 

 between two distinct Federal offices and it is a relationship which 

 Ijoth agencies are extremely proud of and most anxious to protect 

 and continue. 



(e) Sui-^eying and charting operations in support of marme navi- 

 gation and classified military projects invariably call for offshore 

 logistic support which in many cases is provided by the cooperating 

 nation but more often than not is effected through the regular organ- 

 izations of the Department of Defense by means of the Military Sea 

 Transportation Service, the Military Air Transportation Service, 

 the replenislnnent vessels of the U.S. fleet, and the various overseas 

 bases of the Department of Defense. It is contended, therefore, 

 that the Department of Defense through its worldwide organization 

 and its contacts with the counterpart agencies in the foreign countries, 

 is completely and demonstratably ready to conduct survey efforts at 

 a great distance from the territorial waters of the United States in 

 the most efficient and economical manner. 



Moreover, the Department of Defense, through its system of mili- 

 tary attaches attached to the staffs of the diplomatic representatives 

 of the U.S. Government throughout the world, is in the best position 

 to furnish infonnation as to the status of work in foreign countries, 



