It would be difficult to place alongside each other two words that have more vague and varied meanings—to most people—than the last two words in the title I have given to these remarks. The words are “cultural” and “communication.” This is not the place—or at any rate, I am not the “professor”—for a seminar in semantics. But I cannot let this opportunity pass without pointing out the problems of nomenclature—of language—with which we must contend. The phrase “educational and cultural affairs” is clearly a case in point. The actual activities covered by this phrase are concrete and specific. But this phrase itself and others like it—cross-cultural relations, cultural interchange, and the like— are imprecise, and therefore largely meaningless to many people.