Evening star., 1962-03-24
y. OF CALIFORNIA TEXT IN PART
Kenned dy Foresees Great Potential
In Joint Exploration Of Space

INh 6LE1, CuIy., mar.
"a (AP)-A partial tert of
president Kennedy's Charter
Day address at the Univer-
Stty OF California yesterday
tolloWS:
This has been a week of mo-
mentous events around the
world.
The long and painful strug-
gle in Algeria is coming to an
end.
Both nuclear powers and
neutrals labor at Geneva for
a solution to the problems of
a spiraling arms race, and also
TO the problems that so vex our
relations with the Soviet Union.
The Congress opened hear
lngs on a trade bill which is
lar more than a trade bill but
an opportunity to build a
stronger and closer Atlantic
community.
And my wife had her first
and last ride on an elephant.
Effort for Space Unity
But history may we'll remem-
ber this week for an act of
lesser immediate impact - the
decision by the United States
and the Soviet Union to seek
concrete agreements on the
Joint exploration of space. Ex-
perlence has taught us that an
agreement to negotiate does
not always lead to negotiated
agreements.
But should such a joint ef-
fort be realized, it's significance
could well be tremendous. In
terms of space science, our
combined knowledge and ef-
forts can benefit the peoples
of all nations: Joint weather
satellite systems to provide
more ample warning against
the destructive powers of storm
joint communications sys-
TENS to draw the world closer
together-and cooperation in
space medicine research and
space tracking operations to
speed the day when man will
explore the moon and even be-
yond.
But the scientific gains a
joint effort would offer might
be small compared to the
gains for world peace. For a
cooperative Soviet-American
effort in space science and ex-
ploration would emphasize the
interests that unite us instead
of the conflicts that divide us.
1t offers us an area in which
the stale, sterile dogmas of the
cold war can be left literally
a quarter-of-a-million miles
behind. And it would remind
us on both sides that knowl-
edge, not hate, is the paSskey
to the future-that knowledge
transcends national antago-
nismS-that it speaks a uni
versal language-that it is the
possession, not of a single
class, a single nation or a sin
gle theology, but of all man
kind. -.
knowledge Interdependent
We may be proud as a Ma
ton of our record in scientific
achievement-but at the same
time we must be humbled by
an understanding of the inter-
dependence of all knowledge. I
am certain that every scholar
and scientist present today
would agree that his own work
has benefited immeasurably
from the work of men and
women in other countries. The
prospect of a partnership with
Soviet scientists in the explo-
ration of space opens up excit-
ing prospects of collaboration
in other areas of learning. And
cooperation in the pursuit of
knowledge can hopefully lead
to cooperation in the pursuit
of peace.
Yet the pursuit of knowledge
itself implies a world where
men are free to follow out the
logic of their own ideas. 1t
implies a world where nations
are free to solve .their own
problems and to realize their
own ideals. It implies, in
short, world where collabora-
ton emerges from the volun-
tary decisions of nations strong
in their own independence and
their own self-respect. 1t i'm
plies, I believe, the kind of
world which is emerging be-
fore our eyeS-the world pro-
duced by the revolution of ma
tional independence which has
today, and has been since 1945,
sweeping everywhere across the
face of the world.
Error of the Short View
I sometimes think that we
are impressed too much by the
clamor of daily urgencieS. The
newspaper headlines and the
television screen give us the
short view. They so flood us
with stop-press detail that we
lose sight of the grand move
mentS of history. Yet it is the
profound tendencies, and not
the passing excitements, that
will shape the future.
The short view gives us the
impression as a Nation of be-
ing showed and harried. every
where on the defense. But this
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