atre ete att ee fe ee oe Ml heOE elt ey 94 DASA 2019-2 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 deenante tap ee 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. iwanweeth, 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.