SESSIONIl 63 DUNHAM: It's not uncommon, EISENBUD: The relationships with the Japanese were... FREMONT-SMITH: The safety of all the world can rest upon «he judgment of somebody who is exhausted, who has to made a decision. EISENBUD: Yes. There were some obvious snafus of a very minor nature which seem amusing, but might not be, Maybe there are some that I don't know about that were not so amusiag. For example, on the third night Tsuzuk: who was down at Yaizu~—there were a few fisherman down there— passed word,through one of the others,that I should call on him immediately on his arrival that night. He was coming in at eleven o'clock that night. This seerned like a strange time to be asking me to cal! on him, but I checked with this fellow who seemed to speak good English and he said, ''No, Dr. Tsuzuki wants you to call on him at his home.'' So the Embassy provided a car and at eleven o'clock I was up at Tsuzuki's house and, of course, he came to the door in pajamas. phone cali! He was expecting a tele- [Laughter] This illustrates another problem, that ‘s, that the fact that a man thinks he can speak English can be very dan- gerous, The difference between "call Dr. Tsuzuki, ' which I would take as meaning that he wants me to telephone him, and ‘'callonhim," which means that you visit, is a subtle one which you can't expect all Japanese to understand, So I einphasize this as another thing that complicates a situation which is already complicated. He was very gracious; he hada bottle of Scotch and we sat up and had a fine chat. lt would say that the political situation was stalemated by the fact that the Japanese Government was very anxious to settle the thing amicably and were willing to cooperate in any way. They were willing to enter into an official agreement with the United States that would relieve us of any further financial responsibility. But they insisted that we had to say we were sorry. So while this was going on, John Morton and I were concerned with the more technical as- pects, and it is commor!y said that we weren't allowed to seethe fishermen, This is not so. They didn't want the American doctors to examine the fishermen, primarily because of what was being said in the American press and by some Americans in Japan, including a couple of Congressmen, to the effect that there was aothing wrong with these fishermen and that it was alla hoax. There were two members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that came through Japan, saw these men a few days after they arrived, saw the burns, decided that these were superficial and made a public statement to the effect