r It was obvious that the Bikini leaders refused to accept the fact that they would not be allowed to return to Bikini some day and for that reason preferred to of neighboring Rongerik to a new move, suffer the hardships in hope of being able to return to their ancestral home, | It was decided however, that the best interests of the Bikini people would be served by transferring them to Ujilang Atoll, the westernmost of the Marshalls. the government, Ujilang belonged to as heir to the Imperial Japanese government which had seized 1t from its former German owners, who had “purchased” the tiny atoll from its former chief. A group of Bikini men and Navy Seabees arrived at Ujilang in late November to prepare a village for another resettlement attempt. Shortly after their arrival, an annoucement was made that the atoll of Enewetak, Ujllang, would be atomic weapons. west of Bikini, commandeered as another testing ground It was then decided that tanta would be resettied on Ujilang. people right where undoubtedly with and north of they were the Enewetak for inhabl- This left the ex-Bikinti six months earlier, but increased feelings of insecurity, frustration and general bewilderment. In January of 1948 Anthropologist Leonard Mason of the University of Hawaii, made a field at the request of the Navy. He investigation of the problem found among other things that the relocated Bikinians were suffering serious hardships on Rongerik, and, despite a well-organized BM 505555; communal organization