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Mr. Lennon. Mr. Keith. 
Mr. Kerrn. Living up to my promises, I have no questions at this 
time. 
I do appreciate your outlining for us the situation as it exists with 
reference to the Malta resolution and other aspects of the problem. 
Thank you. 
Mr. Lennon. Mr. Karth. 
Mr. Karr. Mr. Chairman. 
Do you need additional people within the State Department to put 
their minds en this problem, so that you can come to some determina- 
tion within this decade ? 
Mr. Potuack. The State Department probably can always make use 
of additional staff, but that is net the problem. 
Mr. Karrn. I suggest that we may pass a foreign aid bill this year 
that should relieve a considerable number of State Department people, 
and I don’t know what could be better served, Mr. Chairman, than to 
have them work on this problem. 
Mr. Potnack. The complexity of the problem, both in trying to as- 
certain the balance of considerations that would dictate where the 
U.S. interests lie, as well as the very many diverse views that are held 
on this question internationally, is the basic reason for the pace at 
which we are moving now. 
Mr. Karrn. It just seems to me that the United States might offer 
some leadership occasionally, and take a position. If somebody does 
not agree with it, at least you have a start, and you have a position 
from which you can negotiate. 
Tf nobedy ever moves or takes a position, we wait with great inter- 
national intrigue. The Chairman is right, that a decision will never 
be made, and a position will never be taken, and the one thing that the 
Commission recommended we be careful of is the thing that is going 
to happen. That is, we are going to get involved in serious contro- 
versies that will lead to international incidents. That is what will 
happen. 
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Mr. Karth. 
Mr. Pollack, the main thrust and interest of the Department of 
State, of course, is the international legal-political framework of the 
seabeds. I am sure that you gentlemen have reviewed in depth the 
Commission’s recommendations related to the Continental Shelf. 
Incidentally, what page in the report is that found on, without look- 
ing it up, because I know you know ? 
Mr. Potiack. Toward the middle of the report. 
Mr. Lennon. That is a pretty good guess. It starts on page 145. 
Of course it goes through the seabeds. It is about possibly five pages 
of the Commission’s report which relate to the things that you all are 
interested in. 
I understand, and rightly so, that the United States refrained from 
the introduction of the resolution of June of last year, 1968, concern- 
ing the deep ocean floor, but nevertheless, in spite of the abstinence 
from the resolution by the United States, the resolution was adopted 
in this respect, and the first report I believe came out or was discussed, 
T believe you said, in August of this year. 
