the Nagasaki A-bomh Museum,
and to Dr.
Shunzo Okajima, Director of
the Atomic Disease Institute of the Nagasaki University School of
Medicine,
UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
The Committee acknowledges with appreciation the efforts of the
Department of State,
and the assistance of Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Territorial Affairs, Mr.
Stanley S.
Carpenter,
and the Denartment
of the Interior for assistance rendered to the Committee in coordinating the participation of the doctors from Javan and Fngland with
the Brookhaven survey team,
Neserving special thanks is Jesse lL.
Steinfeld, M.D.,
former
Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service for his
offers of assistance to the Committee,
to Dr.
William S.
Cole,
Special thanks are also due
Associate Director of the Bureau of Radiolo-~
gical Health who was assiqned to work with the Committee as consultant
by Dr,
U.S,
Steinfeld.
The Committee is also indebted to Dr.
Cole and the
Public Health Service for its assistance in having certain
materials of the Committee translated from Japanese into Fnglish,
and for the pamphlets and cublications made availahle to the Committee through the kindness of Dr. Cole.
The Committee would like here to acknowledge its disaprointment
with two agencies of the United States Government;
namely the Depart-
ment of Defense and the Atomic Fnergy Commission for their apparent
lack of cooperation and interest in the Committee's work,
While it
should be stated that the AEC has been cooperative to some extent
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