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Mr. Lexnon. Iam so sorry the Department of State representatives 
mee 
, CrrapmAn. Since I once worked for the Department of State, 
Ta am ia being hypercritical. That is where I learned my diplomacy, 
sir. It is a good school. But all Foreign Offices work the same way. 
They are more sensitively tuned to each other than they are to their 
own nations. 
Thus, all of a sudden, one had a group of very able and energetic 
diplomats at the General Assembly orating and adopting resolutions 
about ocean affairs in a very vigorous manner, on the basis of a very 
modest amount of knowledge about ocean problems or the ocean. They 
did not like what they discovered. They did not think international 
ocean affairs were being run very well. They did not hesitate to say so, 
or to start reforming them. 
This threw the fear of God into the specialized agencies, and the 
ocean scientists and technologists, both inside and outside the national 
governments. It was plainly apparent that the scientists and technolo- 
oists were going to lose control of ocean affairs to the diplomats if 
they did not stir “their stumps and get organized to do their work more 
effectively. 
Pere was another surge of activity to create a world oceanic organi- 
ation, but this foundered as had previous ones. The specialized agen- 
cies were startled by this unwonted ocean activity in the General 
Assembly, but not frightened enough to be stampeded into giving up 
some of their empires to a new specialized agency. Hardly any agency 
at any level of government gets that frightened ‘about anything. 
The shock was sufficient, howe ever, that they realized that they had 
to band together a little tighter for mutual protection against the 
United Nations mother organization, which had some eager bureau- 
erats itching to get control of international ocean affairs. 
The upshot has been that UNESCO, FAO, WMO, and IMCO have 
formally agreed to coalesce behind strengthening and broadening the 
Inter governmental Oceanographic Commission to help them all, and 
to contribute even some money and personnel to it for that purpose. 
IOC will still stay in UNESCO administratively, but its affairs will 
be jointly governed by an interagency committee. 
This 1s strong medicine for any bureaucracy, and the international 
ocean bureaucracy appears to be responding to pressure and reality 
much more effectively than the United States ocean bureaucracy, each 
large element of which still thinks it has a winning hand in the United 
States ocean game. 
If the Gener al Assembly diplomats will just keep the pressure on for 
another 2 or 8 years, which I think they will do, we will end up with a 
tighter, more effective organization for international ocean affairs 
than we apparently could get in any other way. It will not be as 
effective or as efficient as a world oceanic agency would be, but it will 
be considerably better than anything we had previously. 
Fortunately, the General Assembly « ‘diplomats seems to be just getting 
the bit in their teeth and settling down for the long grind. 
Nothing better can be expected in the international ocean affairs 
field until the United States gets its ocean house in order through the 
establishment of a National Owauie and Atmospheric Agency, or 
some reasonable facsimile thereof, and can set the example other na- 
