H.R. Baker 3 
The Research Grants Program was established with an initial fund of 
$1,000,000, of which the greater part was allocated in 1960. To continue the 
program, the Council approved expenditure of a second sum of $1,000,000, of 
which $250,000 will be spent on oceanography and meteorology. 
There is not sufficient time to describe all of the ways in which the Science 
Committee seeks to increase the effectiveness of Western science. The most 
advanced and successful programs to date have been described. There is some 
work in Operations Research being sponsored by NATOas well as work in Defense 
Psychology. 
The main thoughts which I wish to leave with you are: NATO is a healthy 
growing alliance, not only for mutual defence but for political, social, economic, 
and scientific cooperation. In each of these areas much progress has been made. 
It is perhaps unfortunate that day-by-day advances in international cooperation 
are not always considered news by the press, rather the failures or disagree- 
ments are the things which appear in headlines. It is my belief, based on some 
direct contact with the program, that scientific cooperation within the Alliance 
is in an extremely healthy state and that western science is advancing for the 
good of the Alliance and for the good of all mankind. 
