Ke De Nichols -2« July 12, 195k of this group to make the charges that the United States has been unfaithful to its trusteeship agreement, that it has diverted lands owned by the Marshallese to its own purposes, that it has done so in a manner which 1s illeral and in violation of its trusteeshlp charter. The United States' position is firmly supported by the Delegations from Belgium, France and UK especially. The detailed questioning of Mr. Midkiff on the report of the Trust Territories occupied all of Thursday so that the matter of the petition did not come before the Committee on Petitions until Friday, July 9. This Committe is composed of the Delegations of the Soviet Union, India, Syria, UK, France and Belgium and is probably split 2 and 3 on any actions One of the prime authors of the petition, Mr. Dwight Heine, Superintendent of Schools, Majure, has been brought to the UN by the American Delegation botMr. Sears made it plain to the Council and other committees that Mr. eine was free to give his own opinions in such a manner as he might see fit, and that he appeared as a member of the U.Se Delegation solely because that wis the only way in wh ch his transportation could be provided. Mr. Heine was, therefore, invited to the table as the "petitioner." He was then bombarded particularly by the threes communist sympathizing Dele- gations with long and involved statements purporting to be questions in which were burled statements purporting to be expressions of fact and which required considerable explanation before Mr. Heine could determine what the actual questions were. These were obviously such propaganda statements that in a somewhat heated exchange Mr. Sears bluntly so characterized them, and the Chairman received a complaint from the Indian representative of Mr. Searst use of undiplomatic language. Stripped of the vast volume of wordy chaff, the charges made were: le The provisions in the Charter for the separation of specific lands for strategic and security purposes did not extend to the use of such lands for atomic and thermoenuclear experiments. 2. The obligations assumed by the 0. 5. for the protection of the health of the people and their resources were incompatible with the use of the Trust Territories for weapons experiments. 3. There is no logal basis for the utilization of lands for such PUYposEse The replies to these in substance were based on the wording of the charter and the concept of government whether or not the governing power, while not holding title to lands, none-the-less holds inherently the right of eminent domain by which it may take and utilize the