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Think of the students who protested Eisenhower's visit.
That wac pretty far back.
They overturned Jim laggerty'’s automo-
bile and demonstrated eo violently at the airport that it was considered inadvisable for the President of the United States ta visit Japan;
thie ie in great comrast to the classic image of the Japanese that we
had.
MILLER:
Merril, De. Langham hae said that there was a leader
who could issue @ statement which pacified the people.
You said that
vou talked to Dr, Teusuki because he wae the leader, and he waen't
leader enough, In retcospect to wham could \ow have talked to ta
obtata more effective results?
EISENBUD- $ didn't talk to Or, Teusuhi because { thought he was
the head man. He clearly wasa't. By the time Larrived, there had
already been constituted a committees which was headed up by Kobayashi, who was, sal recall, a microblosogist . id statistician from the National Inetitute of Health. There were two physicians on the
committee.
There wae the head of Toyko Hospital, shose name ea.
capee me, and Dr. Mahi Acumi, the radiologist, and the othere were
geneticists acd physicists and marine Liologiete. It wae agreed be.
{ween our Embassy and the Japanese Foreign Office that all corrumnu.
nications to the people would be through thie cusnmittee, This would
have worked all right. We stuch to cur part of the bargain, which
was made so easy that later on when we wanted to hold press confer.
ences even the Ambassador was not permitted to huld one.
But
while we were coming to agreement aato what the facts were, the
individual Sapenere scsentiste were going out on their own and vving
for public attention, and Teucubi in particular, who wae not a meme
ber of the committee, wae using his very preatigsous position in
Japanto get tothe prese, There was just no way that it could be
done because this was obviously something that was going on, which
Ll never understood, tetween Teusuki and the rest of the medical
community in Japan, te finally lett Japan and went to Geneva in the
middle of the furor, for which he was criticized.
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MILLER:
But the reason for containing unjustified fears, or even
justified fears, was that there wae someone to reassure the people
in Spain and there wae noone to reaseure them in Japan. Apparently
the situation was out of control and could not possibly have been
brought under contro) under any circumatances, even in retrospect,
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EISENBUD. There are some things that a man etth political seneitivity rust can't say. Just like during the Korean war, tf Truman
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