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res commune which would then say, ""Well, it isn't something that 

 anybody can go out and appropriate, but you have to give consideration 

 that you are developing it for everyone because it does belong to 

 everyone." 



Mr. Frelinghuysen. "Would you care to put yourself in one camp 

 or the other? 



Mr. Hanna. Because I think you need the incentive to go out and 

 put in the capital to actually develop it, this is in the realm of no one. 



Mr. Frelinghuysen. If it is in the realm of no one, what incentive 

 is there to do something about it? 



Mr. Hanna. I think that was the realm of space before the in- 

 trusions into space and it still is. However, that did not preclude the 

 United Nations as being one of the forums in which all could partici- 

 pate to set down certain guidelines. That could be applicable here and 

 to this degree you have a margin between the two; that it isn't strictly 

 the realm of no one; it isn't strictly the realm of everyone, but there 

 is trying to be an emergence of these concepts and that ultimately it 

 might be a wing of both or the emergence of a third criteria, or the 

 selection of either one. 



Mr. Frelinghuysen. You talked at one point of an eventual 

 necessity, or the advisability, of making an equitable distribution of 

 these resources, and you suggested that somebody, or some entity, 

 might offer {)rescriptive rights to those who were able to exploit. 



Are you suggesting in both cases that perhaps the U.N. should 

 make a determination as to how much exploitation could be carried 

 out by any country, and offer an exclusive right in a certain area, 

 say, to an individual nation? 



Mr. Hanna. Not at this point. I am not suggesting that is the 

 appropriate move at this point. 



Mr. Frelinghuysen. No one might be in a position yet, but I am 

 sayiug, would this be a reasonable role? Do you envisage the U.N. 

 providing some kind of arbitration between competing nations who 

 have a capability and who might otherwise take it on themselves to 

 move alone? 



Mr. Hanna. "Well, this is happening in the North Sea in just that 

 way. I believe I could get a report for the committee of the arbitra- 

 tion that is now taking place between the nations that abut the North 

 Sea relative to the extraction of the gas from that area. You will find 

 there a demonstration of arbitration to try to work out the conflicts 

 that result. 



Mr. Fraser. Do you know who the parties are to that arbitration? 



Mr. Hanna. They are the nations that rim the North Sea. I don't 

 have them in the forefront of my mind right now, but I know one of 

 the key disputes right now is between Germany, which had the mis- 

 fortune of only having a very small chunk on that particular sea, and 

 a couple of her neighbors to see if they couldn't arbitrate a little 

 broader swath out there to participate in the slicing of the North 

 Sea pie relative to the gas deposits. 



You see, if you evolve your law to a practical situation like this, 

 you can see what concrete problems have to be dealt with. Then when 

 you approach this business of vesting the grant authority in anybody, 

 you are doing so with some history of actual problems and it seems to 

 me you would be more apt to do correctly what you are attempting 



