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Mr. Joe C. Barrett is a member of the law firm of Barrett, Wheatley, Smith & 
Deacon which has offices in the Citizens National Bank Building, Jonesboro, Ark. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you. How about Mr. Eberhard P. Deutsch, 
chairman of the Standing Committee on Peace and Law Through the 
United Nations? 
Mr. Ety. Mr. Deutsch is a New Orleans lawyer in general practice. 
Mr. Lennon. The chances are he is identified with the petroleum in- 
terests, isn’t he, if he is in New Orleans? What do you think? 
Mr. Ety. He has a well-known and distinguished practice. I don’t 
know who his clients are. 
Mr. Lennon. The reason I brought that out is that I got the im- 
pression that at least one member of the commission who has also been 
identified with the petroleum interests and a very dedicated and fine 
gentleman, Mr. Blaustein, with Standard Oil Co., gave me the impres- 
sion in conversations with him that he thought that they ought to 
be in some international organization such as the United Nations or 
some part of the United Nations, an organization that you could deal 
directly with and wouldn’t be under the pressure from the coastal 
States with which they do business. 
I wondered if that view was shared by the petroleum industry gen- 
erally. Apparently it is not, is it? 
Mr. Exy. Let me make this very clear. I don’t appear here for the 
petroleum industry. As to what Mr. Blaustein is describing as being 
in the interests of the petroleum companies he may well be right, but 
if that premise is adopted, my position is that it would be against the 
interests of the United States to sacrifice our existing rights in our own 
continental margin in order to obtain that kind of advantage for oil 
companies anywhere. The National Petroleum Council, to its great 
credit, stated the same position at page 72 of its report. 
Mr. Lennon. After the actions in the United Nations a year or so 
ago with respect to this proposal, and I cannot recall off the top of my 
head how it was identified, didn’t the State Department sort of take 
that position and sort of lean that way? It seems to me that before 
either this committee or another subcommittee that I attended, I got 
the impression that the State Department was sort of leaning gen- 
erally in that direction. 
What is your view on that ? 
Mr. Ety. I hesitate to attempt from memory to give you an account 
of the State Department’s position. It really would not be fair. 
Mr. Lennon. I can certainly say that this committee is grateful to 
you for your appearance here today, but it seems obvious to me that 
we would sacrifice much of what we ultimately hope to do unless we 
called on you frequently for advice and counsel, because this does re- 
flect the thinking of the American Bar Association and particularly 
related to the particular question with which we are involved here 
now. 
Mr. Exy. Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I assure you that the 
members of these committees and of these sections are devoted and 
dedicated people who struggled with this question and who will at- 
pone to respond to your inquiries in the future and will be honored to 
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