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SUBJECT: CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN OFFERS OF MEDICAL
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Following newspaper reports of injury to Japanese fishermen,
Dr. Bugher telephoned Dr, John Morton, Director, Atomic Bomb Casualty
Commission, in Japan, requesting that he proceed to Tokyo, determine
such facts as he could, and offer facilities and services of the
staff of the ABCC,
(Dr. Bugher talked to Morton by long distance
NON-CCRP
phone on March 16 and March 19).
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A cable from Morton in Tokyo,
giving average white ae Tokyo patients and patients at Yaizu,
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