Rebs ritinues Podueed onat the bat it is -¢ lata, le jiave wsed to ye same i danger mudemi© potenvem off say the i about isn’t it? STATEMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER ADRIAN P, WINKEL BEFORE INTERIOR AND RFLATFD AGENCTES SUBCOMMITTER COMMITTEE APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF RFPRESENTATTVES. CONCERNING RESETTLEMENT OF THE PRO UE OF BEKIN' Mao : 19768 Mr. Chairman, Members of presentation of the Department face ON the Committee The preceding statements of Mrs the dilemma we THE of Van Cleve and the Energy clearly demonstrate in dealing with the immediate and longer- range futures of the people now living on Bikini Island. Until last week, it had been a reasonable presumption based on predictions by the Department of in the Bikini Atoll would be a the Bikini people could Energy that Eneu satisfactory place to which be moved in the immediate short-run period and that it would also serve aS a permanent location for the bulk of the larger group still on Kili. We now know that this is not the case. We location thus have the necessity of that most likely will a temporary move to a not be the permanent home for these people. tatistics ‘eo much At this point let me say that there are no uninhabited islands or atolls on which these people might make a permanent settlement. Uninhabited islands in the Marshalls are uninhabited because they are incapable of sustaining human life to any extent, particularly the numbers of people we are von't it; on Kili issioner made a fat will talking about.