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candor? The United States population is waiting fu~ candor," We
don't realize here how much is made of that abroad, or how cynically
the oft-repeated ''people's right to know" contrasts with the official
pronouncements when they do come out.
The first acknowledgment of the fallout from Bravo was one sen-

tence:

"During a routine test, some Marshallese natives and weather

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officiais were dusted" or some such word. The mystery of that, with
no follow up, and then suddenly the Japanese thing, I think is at the
root of the fact that people can't even hear the words "hydrogen bomb'
without going into paroxysms. What help have they received to understand what happened? Asa result of not knowing, a mystique has developed that makes the very thought paralyzing,
UPTON: How long ¢id it take to get the tuna industry back into
more or less standard operation?
FREMONT-SMITH:

UPTON:

In Japan?

In Japan. It was disrupted there for atime.

Dr. Donaldson say that.

We heard

DONALDSON: It is difficult to put an exact time limit on this problem because the fear flares up or has flared up each time there has
been a sybsequent test. The pulse cf the people is still associated
directly with any testing or any announcement of testing. The surprising thing is that the French tests and the Russian tests haven't been
upsetting to the same degree.
ROOT: I was in Japan during the Chinese test. The Japanese were
busy demonstrating against the arrival of an American nuclear subMarine in one of the northern harbors and paid little attention—other
than a kind of pleased recognition tha: the Chinese pulled it off. I was
told that the ceremonies commemorating Hiroshima Day would probably have ceased by now because there are few enough interested in
going, but the Yaizu fishermen have given it a new and bigger lease

on life.

An interesting insight was when the Sino-Soviet split came.

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They had to hold two different ceremonies and Mrs, Koboyama, widow
of the man whodied, finally refused tc go because she was being
pulled in both directions. One of the meeting: climaxed in heated
argument about whether the Chinese Communist -“xvernment or the
Soviet Government had sent greater contributions to support this
memorial, The contributions were openly acknowledged.

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