aX a . en (on € : Mr. Theodore R. Mitchell a ars ; 6 October 29, 1974 prepare lands for planting, to plant them and then to harvest the resulting tree crops. Should the cash cropping of coconuts proceed according to schedule only then will the people begin receiving what Holmes and Narver hope will be an annual cash income of perhaps $40, 000 or slightly iess than $100 per capita in terms of present population. In the meantime the people will have to use their trust fund (which currently produces $60,000 per annum in income or ° somewhat less than $150 per capita) to provide for their external needs and to depend on the U.S. government and other donors, Reliance on both the trust fund and on further external assistance continues and increases the risk of a dependency relationship which can be expected to make subsequent development more disficult. Already the people have acquired a taste for outside staples which apparently on occasion can make up as much as 80%of the diet. These include rice, flour, sugar, tea, canned meat, and fish; in other words the usual foods that low income people desire after they come into closer contact with the outside world. So we have the combined problems of rising expectations and dependency, both of which have to be taken into consideration in planning subsequent development for the atoll, Neither mekes the task easy. Once the euphoria of regaining the homeland passes, disallusionment may well come, along witn new demands on the United States (which of course continues to bear the responsibility for the original move) to provide for the people. Looking to the future, very careful planning and plan execution will. —. »-..be required if the people are not to continue as wards of the government. (3) Another potential problem concerns future relationships between driEnjebi and driEnewetak simply because the former cannot occupy their former island or indeed their traditional section of the atoll. Rather they will find themselves relocated quite close to their neighbors. Although I note that distinctions between the two populations have been reduced to the extent that the 12 man council is now elected at large from al! the people, and that the large majority of the population have . been brought up as members of a "single community, '' nonetheless the present plan to relocate the driEnjebi on Medren and Japtan puts them in the relationships of 'relocatees' to the driEnewetak "hosts" which raises the possibility of the type of deteriorating relationships which all too frequently characterizes hosts and relocatees in other settlement schemes, especially where the two communities find themselves in competition for scarce resources, resources to which the hosts _ traditionally held claims. ? At this point there is little more that I can say without further knewledge. In conclusion, however, let me say that there are sufficient social and economic problems connected with the entire relocation effort to justify b°