the return of the former peoples in coming years. While it is too s0on to definitely state when the Bikinians may be returned, preparations and planning should start as soon as possible. Central to the purpose of the rehabilitation of the entire atoll will be the provision of physical facilities, infrastrutures, and the agricultural reclamation of the lands now given to the encroachment of much wild vegetation. Planning of the entire rehabilitation program is of prime importance and dnelude plans for sites for villages, roadways, coconut groves, snould community facilities, subsistence crop areas, etc. The Bikini situation, a stepchild of a former Navy Administration, may well turn out to produce more adverse problems for the Trust Territory Government if serious and liberal planning is not directed to an early and intelligent repatriation of the Bikinians. Few things could be more produc- tive of controversy than the unwelcome dislocation of life experienced by the Bikini people in deference to the testing of destructive weapons of war. At present much resentment and dissatisfaction are voiced by the Bikini people, who now reside on the lagoon-less island of Kili. Their relocation from an- atoll with an abundant resource of fish in its large lagoon to a tiny island which 1s unaccessible by small boats six months of the year because of heavy seas does not help to assuage this resentment. Frequent requests are made by the Bikinians to return to their former homes and most of them earnestly believe that their return will be soon. As a consequence these people gy Oenartment of Ener Historian’s Office ARCHIVES