-e in the daily papers that not one hair or one particle of dust would be given to the U. S.3 or the American doctors would not be allowed to see the fishermen or take a single drop of blood; or that unimown nuclear particles unmeasurable at present cause the worst medical conditions. As the Japanese public was continually bombarded with such statements, it was kept in a state of hysteria, terror and resentment. The normal routine of the average Japanese was disrupted; fish were radioactive; plants were radioactive; animals were radioactive; and as late as 24 May 1954, citizens of Hiroshima were warned to stay out of rains because the water was radioactive. On 27 March 1954, at an Embassy-sponsored dinner (hr. W. Leonhart, host), the Japanese proposed for the first time that only the Japanese doctors of. the American team examine the crew. Though this request was immediately acceded to, it was resented by the Caucesian American doctors, not vecause of "white superiority", but because Dr. Morton and Dr. Lewis were the best trained and most experienced physicians of the American group. The Japanese by this maneuver establisned an anti-wnite policy; more important, they were lowering American medical standards to the inferior Japanese medical practices. With this bitter concession surrendered, the Japanese continued to block American examination of the patients. The reasons given for not permitting the examinations were the patients were nervous even with their Japanese doctors and the patients were afraid the Americans would use them "as guinea pigs". Reiteration by Dr. Nakaidgumi of the anti-Caucasian policy occurred on 29 March; acceding again, the American team asked when its Japanese doctors could examine the patients. His reply was that the Japanese group were meeting in a couple of days and then ~~ oF omen ge Faye cho amr ASwget“a a be dees