INCOMING TELEGRAM @epartment of State YI : — CO 6 SAE FROM: Tokyo info SS G FE P voc ND . 1:49 a.m. To: Secretary of State NOS 5254, Jyne—29 sare ePaacy DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW SINGLf REVIEW AUTHOR:ZcD BY: | DETERMLNATION [CIRCLE NUMBER(S)] PRIORITY 408148 Control: 14198 Rec'd: June 29, 1954 Action 9014 NAME: DETE: Reference Department 5 om SPigze nt ASSSTs 5 ANT TQ The S/KE CLASSIFICATION. TO: SIOLPY Soh CHANGEDLNB o CORD 5) LASSIFICATION CANCELLED SHADRPONO BRACKETED ~< JUN12 949 4 j -f, eeR to, st ayy“oe £ DOSTHemo V¥OY2S|, Ve s. Text of press statement on autumn conference follow release here 6 p.m. June 30. Propose QUOTE The United States Government has accepted an invitation from the Science Council of Japan to participate in a meeting with members of the Council's Radiation Effects Special Committee on the general subject of radioactivity in relation to human health and on scientific procedures for detecting, measuring and guarding against its presence in the environment. The acceptance was communicated to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a note verbale delivered by a representative of the American Embassy in reply to an earlier note received. from the Ministry extending the invitation on behalf of the sclence Council. The United States, the Embassy declared in its note, will send "a delegation of senior American scientists expert in these fields to Tokyo for such a conference st a mutually agreeable date in autumn of this year. The projected meeting, an Embassy spokesman pointed out, represents a continuation and expansion of cooperation between scientists of both nations in sharing knowledge of radiation This’ cooperation, and procedures for safeguarding against it. the spokesman added, has been demonstrated during recent months. He pointed out that at the request of the Japanese Government the United States has provided the aid of physicians and bivlogists through the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission staff and through the consultative services of United States Atomic Energy Commission specialists Merril Eisenbud, W.R. Boss and L.R. The latter two scientists have been in Japan for the Donaldson. past month conferring with their Japanese colleagues on methods of identifying the extent of radiation in fish. “END QUOTE ny oS ORGANZATION & Miss, arte "Amr vst , é sy, SN ef et aoco m "UNIQUE DOCUMENT isuc 8 ee __ REPRODUCTION FROMTH! _ COPY, IF CLASSIFIED, 1 PROHIBITED a Pe A ae ~——y °