2p 4 “sontsnenoy comursston, Te ais " RETURN or noiisetabese 10 THETR wine ISLAND8 202" Nowe ’ Report to the General Manager by the os . Director of Biology and Medicine =. Jueclrl THE PROBLEM- le an Lg rd . > E a ‘To “deterhine the advisability of, an early ‘return ote of the Rongelapese |to their. home island in ‘the Marshalls. Islands March1, "1954, 82 inhabitantsmeré" evacuatea first £9. Toe Re Be _ SUMMARY oo poe ae 2. after, the relatively heavy fallouton theMarshall Se Kua Jalein and, ‘then ‘to the Island of. Biit on Ma juro,Atoll where they are now living. There have been, public statements» con: wit ee 2 a. got he : - curred: in by,‘the “Atomic Energy Commission,“Depertnent of.ce Interior, and the Department of “state, to tiie effect “that va A Lo these people will be returned to their home island of Rongelap as soon as health considerations permit. Such a statement was ome submitted to the 17th Session of the U.N. Trusteeship’ counesl, a Tene Subcommittee of Petitions, March eT, 1956 by.Mr. D._ Vernon | ticKay, Special Representative of the Administering authorities _ for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, * oS 3. Since the Rongelapese are now subsidized by the United States Government, with little need or opportunity to. actively engage in normal livelihood, there is the risk of an cnset of indolence, to the detriment of the best interest of the Rongelapese. ; . ' cs oo