12, Dispatch dated March 20 from Allison: returned from Yaizu inspection today. and ship. Dr. Morton, Colonel Meek Examined hospitalized patients Preliminary report indicates some of Yaizu patients more seriously injured than two patients previously removed to Tokyo, We may wish to recommend to Japanese transfer entire group Tokyo University Hospital. FEC will cooperate in providing facilities, (Later information suggests. that this recommendation, which was indeed made cli lfh a we ag stkraket ; antagonized Yaizu doctors, which may have played an important part in later deterioration of relations with Dr. Morton's group.) This dispatch also contains the following estimate ag the minimum total body radiation dose acquired by boat personnels approximately 50 Roentgens, 13, March 21 dispatch contains following request from Allison: Recommend that I be authorized to inform Foreign Minister that, without prejudice to question of responsibility for accident, US Government will immediately assume full responsibility for medical expenses of injured, and will pay fishermen's wages while they remain hospitalized with perhaps solatium to their families (in accordance with Japanese custom). DOE ARCHIVES 5