223 stick up, atolls of about eight feet with palm trees mixed in the haze and the waves, and they're very difficult to spot. So they couldn't see it. see it. They weren't close enough even to So finally one of the sailors said, "I suggest you ask the Marshallese boys." of Annapolis, went up. Whereupon he says, "I'ma graduate I know how to navigate a ship," and his back But finally in desperation he said, "Well, do you fellows know where Wotje is?" And again this is typical of their behavoir, never a direct response, -"We'll think about it for a while”; and this is a lesson agme of the rest of us might learn, Rather than blurt out a quick reply, "Why, let's + think about it for a moment," Y So they had a little huddle; they waliced around the o¢ edge of the ship; they looked in the water; they looked off ‘at the sky and they had another consultation and they said "Wotje that way [indicating]." This was a real big help. least he knew the direction to go! [Laughter]. At He thought maybe this fellow is so dammed smart, maybe I could ask him another question. So he said, "How far 1s it to Wotje?" Well, another consultation, another walk around the ship and another huddle and "Wotje ,40 more miles.” 22 "Well, we're lost. We might as well try this." So 23 he said, "Sail that way 40 miles," 24 and dropped the anchor and everything was lovely and he began 25 to think about this, 26 he said, “How did you know where Wotje was?" 27 "Oh!" They went into the harbor So he gathered them together againand This was a very serious problem, So another 28 huddle, and another bit of discussion and then the great 29 announcerent: 30 "Wotje always right here!" FREMONT-SMITH: [Laughter] I think I have to give another aspect 31 of this same story because as I was coming back from Bikini 32 Iwas on a plane with a Navy captain who told me a very 33 Similar story. SiOEUCLA. Y