Ve t was obvious that the Bikini leaders refused to accept the fact that they would not be allowed to return to Bikini some day and for that reason preferred to of neighboring Rongerik to a new move, suffer the hardships in hope of being able to return to their ancestral home. It was decided however, Bikini people would Atoll, be the westernmost the government, that the best interests of the served by transferring them to Ujilang of the Marshalls. Ujilang belonged to as heir to the Imperial Japanese government which had seized it from its former German owners, "purchased" the tiny atoll who had from its former chief. A group of Bikini men and Navy Seabees arrived at Ujilang in late November to prepare a village for another resettlement attempt. that Shortly after their arrival, the atoll Ujilang, of Enewetak, would be atomic weapons. west of Bikini, It where undoubtedly with and north was made of commandeered as another testing ground was then decided tants would be resettled on Ujilang. people right an annoucement they were that for the Enewetak inhabl- This left the ex-Bikini six months earlier, but increased feelings of insecurity, frustration and general bewilderment. In January of 1948 Anthropologist Leonard Mason of the University of Hawaii, at the the request made a field investigation of the problem of the Navy. relocated Bikinians Rongerik, and, circa, ia were He found among other things suffering serious hardships on despite a well-organized 9009074 that communal organization