Kyajalein May 28 (AP), Shrewd Marshall Island leaders believe their
protest to the United Nations against American hydrogen bomb experiements

put a whip in their hand and they don't intend to lay it dow. Their people:
are scared.

The natives of Rongelap and Utirik Atolls were endangered by

the March 1 hydrogen bomb blast and many were injured,

Hatives of Bikini

and Eniwetok ware uprooted from their home Atolls in 1946-47 and have little
hopes of regaining them,

I talked to the Marshallese who drafted the protest

which went direct te the United Nations.

Thay recognize that it might give

Russia some political ammunition in the June session of the United Nations,

that it might burt close American friends in the Trust Territory, Civil
Administration of the Island chain.
stand as stated in their petition.

They say they will not budge from their
Overtures already have been made through

High Commissioner Frank Midkiff to the Marshallese.

In a quick trip here

last week Midkiff suggested that they send word to United Nations delegate
Henry Cabot Lodge Junior that “we are sure everything is being done that is

necessary for our welfare."
"Fluent, English speaking Dwight Heine, Superintendent of Marshall Island
intermediary schools and leader of the petition, told me:
we are naive children of the tropics.
will send Ambassador Lodge a reply.

‘some people think

We are not as naive as they think.

We

It will be polite but we will not send

anything like has been suggested te us.'

There is no doubt -— among Marshallese

or Americans on the scenes —— that the United States Government has gone allout

to help the 82 natives from Rongelap and the 154 from Utirik, They have had
the finest medical care.

They have been adequately fed and sheltered.

have been compensated for lost fmep Copra crops.

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