ABSTRACT
The need to strengthen our international economic system is probably greater right now, with more chance for progress because of these common bonds specialists forged among ourselves, than at any time in postwar history. And in each of our countries is the same common debate, the debate between those who favor international economic cooperation and those who think these doors should be closed. Nowhere are the subjects of technology transfer and of energy cooperation or of trade liberalization in its broadest sense more apparent than in the nations that make up the Pacific Community. And despite the great range of political and cultural differences that mark the nations of the Pacific and this nation, it is the combination of economic adversity, and specialists record of economic cooperation and what has grown out of it, that has really formed our most common bond.
