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WARREN: You are aware of the upset in the anthropologists association, aren't you, about their being used ae tools by the CLA?
FREMONT-SMITH: Yes, I know, and the story that was in Peru,
what was it called, Camelot. which raised an awful mess. But
there wap also not 4 great deal of wisdom used. I would think.
WARREN:

That's right.

BRUES: You mean that even the cultural anthropologists can have
& colonia! attitude when they go somewhere?
WARREN: I think the anthropologists, too, have calmed down
about this, It waen‘'t quite as bad as they thought at first.
SCHULL:

To returnto Wright's case, it appeare ae though in

Spain all of the unpredictable elements contrived to get together in
avery happy sort of way. in Japan, exactly the apposite seema to

have occurred. The one organization which could conceivably have
made the etatement Merril suggested waa the National Inatitute of
Health; the National Institute of Radsolcgical Sciences was not yet
in existence, But even if Dr, Kobayashi had made a statement and

a forceful one, it's questionable whether it would have had a signifi-

cant effect upon the Japanese public. The National Institute of Health
of Japan, though established in 1939, was mo -e closely identified with
the occupation than many other groups, and f, for one, am not con-

vinced that at Nad eather the stature ur sufficient public acceptance |

to stem the tide even if sa motivated.

FISENBUD:

The medical schools were under the Ministry of Edue |

cation, the hospitals were under the Ministry of Weifare, and they
were jockeying between the politicians in those two groups. It was

amess.

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DUNHAM: Frank, you made a statementio the effect that the
cultural attachés were taolated. Is this by jod or simply by the type
of people that had been appointed?
DUNHAM: I've seen this happen to science attaches.
FREMONT-SMITH: I get the impression that the whole embassy
group, the cultural attach?s and the science attachés, all live together,

all speak English.

They live in spectal housing arrangements for

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