![handle is hein.cow/anamacp0414 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE
At the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, eight hundred members and delegates
were present. Despite the travel budget cuts of many organizations and
universities, the attendance at our sessions was between five and six
hundred, and the audience's enthusiasm and interest in the topic
were surely as evident as ever. Our theme for the 1974 Annual Meeting
was meant to convey the need for continued dialogue between the two
super-powers in recognition of the importance of their reaching an
international relationship of cordiality.
The papers presented at the meeting and prepared for this issue
are the products of careful and erudite thought of scholars and officials
from the United States and the Soviet Union. However some remarks
may be perceived by participants from either country, the tenor of the
entire meeting was characterized as conciliatory and cooperative. In
private conversations with representatives from both countries, I felt
their strong desire to communicate, and the language of discourse was
that of a new awareness of our commonality.
While I do not wish to sound unrealistically sanguine, I am now
further convinced, as a result of this Annual Meeting, that the US-
USSR relationship will continue to reflect cooperation rather than con-
flict-no matter which political party controls Congress or the White
House. As I indicated in my remarks at the opening session of the Seventy-
eighth Annual Meeting, our two countries stand on the edge of tomorrow-
with hands shaking not in terror or anger, but in friendship-and,
together, face many of the major crises of humanity, from famine in Africa
to the challenges of outer space. For this reason, the theme of our meeting
was both timely and timeless.
Our meeting was not in the old mode of coexistence with confrontation,
but in the style of men and women of varying political, economic and
social persuasions living together as a family of nations. As our technology
reaches out to fill the earlier abstractions of our imaginations in space and
in the sea, we are learning to control our aggression, to speak with frankness
and honesty and to measure our integrity by our capacity to promote
social justice and harmony within, and between, nations.
That men with quite contrary views can often speak across their dif-
ferences and voice similar thoughts can be illustrated by comments
from Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Either could have endorsed the other's
statement:
The real price of everything, what everything really costs, to the man who wants
to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring [Wealth of Nations, 1776];
In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the
hostility of one nation to another will come to an end [Manifesto of the Com-
munist Party, 1848].
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