It was obvious that the Bikini leaders refused to accept the fact that they would not be allowed to return to Bikini some day and for that reason preferred to suffer the hardships of neighboring Rongerik to a new move, in hope of being able to return to their ancestral home. It was decided however, that the best interests of the Bikini people would be served by transferring them to Ujilang Atoll, the westernmost of the Marshalls. Ujilang belonged to the government, as heir to the Imperial Japanese government Which had seized it from its former German owners, “purchased “ the tiny atoll who had from its former chief. A group of Bikini men and Navy Seabees arrived at Ujilang in late November to prepare a village for another resettlement attempt. that Shortly after their arrival, the atoll Ujllang, of Enewetak, would be atomic weapons. west of Bikini, and north of for It was then decided that the Enewetak inhabi- where they were This left the ex-Bikint six months earlier, but undoubtedly with increased feelings of insecurity, and general was made commandeered as another testing ground tants would be resettled on Ujilang. people right an annoucement frustration bewilderment. In January of 1948 Anthropologist Leonard Mason of the University of Hawaii, at the request made a field investigation of the problem of the Navy. He found among other things that the relocated Bikinians were suffering serious hardships on Rongerik, and, despite a well-organized communal organization