MARINE SCIENCE 
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1961 
U.S. SEnaTE, 
CoMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND Foreign CoMMERCE, 
Washington, D.C. 
The committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 9:45 a.m., in room 
5110, New Senate Office Building, Hon. Warren G. Magnuson (chair- 
man of the committee) presiding. 
The CuHatrman. The committee will come to order. 
We have a long list of witnesses here. 
We are honored today to have with us the Secretary of the Navy, 
who wants to make a brief statement about the whole field of ocea- 
nography as it pertains to much of the important work of the Defense 
Department, and particularly the Navy. 
Mr. Connally, we will be glad to hear from you briefly on this 
matter. I know that you don’t have a prepared statement. But I 
know that you are cognizant of the general objectives of this legisla- 
tion, which of course passed the Senate last year, and the importance 
in a general way of oceanography to the work of the Navy and the 
mission of the Navy; let’s put it that way. 
STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN B. CONNALLY, SECRETARY OF THE 
NAVY 
Mr. Connauiy. Mr. Chairman, Senator Schoeppel, it is a great 
privilege for me to be here this morning and I am grateful for the 
opportunity to do so. I am not going to present any specific testi- 
mony with respect to the bill now before the committee, because I 
think we are extremely fortunate in the Navy in having Dr. James H. 
Wakelin, who is Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and 
Development, who will appear before this committee at a later time 
and give the official Navy views with respect to this particular legisla- 
tion. I might say in that connection that we are particularly proud 
that the Navy has been honored by having the chairman of the Inter- 
agency Committee on Oceanography, and the chairman is Dr. Wake- 
lin. I feel that he will be a very competent witness to appear before 
the committee. 
It is extremely heartening to us to know the interest that this com- 
mittee has in this basic problem of oceanography. Obviously the 
Navy Department is not the only entity in the Government that is in- 
terested in this work. There are many, many agencies of the Govern- 
ment that are vitally concerned with it. There are many contribu- 
tions being made to the overall matter by Government as well as pri- 
vate agencies. 
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