soe SESSION V ROOT: . 267 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. , 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, te EISENBUD. There are some things that a man etth political seneitivity rust can't say. Just like during the Korean war, tf Truman ~