While the Cabinet Committee is forming our nation's program, the United 

 Nations should be formulating the world program. Indeed, the next General As- 

 sembly might well announce a set of principles along the line of President 

 Johnson's speech and establish a commission to develop a program for the im- 

 plementation of these principles 



If President Johnson would make this challenge to the next General Assembly, 

 he would assure that this last earth frontier, the sea — five-sevenths of the earth's 

 surface — would remain the legacy of all human beings — Clark M. Eiciielberger. 



(Text of resolution adopted bv the Geneva World Peace Through Law 

 Conference, July 13, 1967 



Resolution 15: Non-Fishery Resources of the High Seas 



Whereas, new technology and oceanography have revealed the possibility of 

 exploitation of untold resources of the high seas and the bed thereof beyond 

 the continental shelf and more than half of mankind finds itself underprivileged, 

 underfed, and underdeveloped, and the high seas, are the common heritage of all 

 mankind. 



Resolved, that the World Peace Through Law Center: 



(1) Recommend to the General Assembly of the United Nations the issuance 

 of a proclamation declaring that the non-fishery resources of the high seas, out- 

 side the territorial waters of any State, and the bed of the sea beyond the con- 

 tinental shelf, appertain to the United Nations and are subject to its jurisdiction 

 and control. 



(2) Refer to its Committee on Fisheries Law the question of conservation and 

 regulation of the international fishery resources of the high seas. 



Mr. Frelinghuysen. Mr. Hanna also referred to Mr. Roosevelt's 

 statement at the U.N. This well might be of interest, too. I was 

 at the U.N. as a delegate that fall and I have forgotten the details 

 of what he said but that should be inserted. 



Mr. Fascell. Without objection we shall insert that. 



(An extract from Mr. Roosevelt's address follows:) 



Statement by Hon. James Roosevelt, U.S. Representative to the 

 General Assembly, Made in Committee II (Economic and Financial), 

 October 15, 1965 i 



toward a better life in larger freedom 



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Cooperation for Undersea Exploration 



Mr. Chairman, I have been talking about very specific items presently under 

 active consideration. May I now turn for a moment to an area in which I ask you 

 to join me in the exercise of some imagination. You will forgive me if I say that 

 I come from a long line of innovators who were not afraid to dream. 



Whatever benefits mankind is the proper business of this organization which, 

 in the past, has demonstrated not only willingness but great ability to enter 

 previously uncharted paths. I dream, therefore, of the day when this committee 

 will discuss the economic consequences of exploration in areas where man has 

 only begun to probe — under the sea. 



I dream of it because the economic consequences will have an important, if 

 not revolutionary, impact upon our procedures and plans for the economic 

 well-being of our planet. 



Discoveries in outer space are now but a matter of time, and to the credit of 

 this organization we have a precedent in oiu" resolutions vesting in mankind the 

 benefits to be derived. But a new world is already being discovered without even 

 leaving earth, and what are we doing about it? 



I am sure the members of this committee have been reading about the Sealab 

 experiments being conducted by the United States Navy in the waters of the 



'Extract from address. Source: Department of State Bulletin Vol. LIII, No. 1377, November 15, 1965; 

 see also UN resolution, Appendix, p. 222. 



