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In that regard, Mr. Chairman, I hope that at an appropriate time we 
might be able to include in the declaration of policies and objectives in 
your section 102 a positive statement about the encouragement of the 
advancement of the law of the sea because I think that you are going to 
run into this every turn you make, and I don’t think that we have had 
a sufficient attention to that in the past. 
Now, in the immediate present, I think that there has been lots more 
awareness, for instance in the American Bar Association. Since you are 
working in oceanography, Mr. Chairman, I think they have become 
tremendously alert and more actively engaged in constructing the posi- 
tive law of the sea, but I think we are a long way from the mark that we 
have to hit before we are going to be in a good posture, Senator, to do 
some of the things that you have in mind both within and without the 
country. ; 
Senator Prexy. The tragedy is that if we keep waiting and this is, I 
think, what the petroleum industry would like to see happen, if we 
keep waiting, national claims will have been laid to the total continen- 
tal terrace and it will be too late because you can never roll the carpet 
back. You can only roll it ahead. 
Mr. Hanna. I join you in the concern, but I would say that that is 
only an added reason for us to make a very strong statement of policy 
and objectives relative to establishment of more effective positive 
posture for the law of the sea. 
That is all, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. Lennon, Thank you. 
Do you have any additional questions, Mr. Chairman ? 
Mr. Kerrn. I have just one question. 
Mr. Lennon. Off the record. 
(Discussion off the record.) 
Mr. Kerru. I was involved this morning at the Committee on 
Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 
Mr. Lennon. Senator, in your opening remarks you decry the fact 
that the whole spectrum of oceanology and oceanography and marine 
sciences was not getting through the news media any attention and 
unfortunately, although we are grateful that they are here, practically 
the only press media that attend hearings related to this sort of subject 
matter are people who are editors and writers for magazines and 
periodicals related to the subject matter. 
It just simply doesn’t attract attention. I am struck with what you 
say here, and I think this judgment is shared by a lot of people, and I 
quote you from page 3: 
‘While detracting not in the least from our building of pyramids in space, I 
believe our national oceanologic program has far greater potential for enriching 
the life of man here on earth. 
Recognizing that you are a person who is tremendously interested 
and concerned with the subject matter, that is worthy of a headline in 
all of our news media, but if that isn’t sufficient to attract attention, I 
think we can requote the statement made by Mr. Drucker: 
* * * we are about to tackle systematically the development of the oceans as 
the greatest economic resource to be found on this earth. 
Now, those quotes should get into the news media at all levels, the 
press, television, the radio, the dissemination where one dissenter can 
