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Mr.
Chairman,
Members of
presentation of the Department
face
ON
the Committee
The preceding statements of Mrs
the dilemma we
THE
of
Van Cleve and the
Energy clearly demonstrate
in dealing with
the
immediate and
longer-
range futures of the people now living on Bikini Island.
Until last week,
it had been a reasonable presumption
based on predictions by the Department of
in the Bikini Atoll would be a
the Bikini
people could
Energy that Eneu
satisfactory place to which
be moved
in the
immediate short-run
period and that it would also serve aS a permanent location
for the bulk of the
larger group still
on Kili.
We now know that this is not the case.
We
location
thus
have the necessity of
that most
likely will
a temporary move to a
not be the
permanent home
for
these people.
tatistics
‘eo much
At this point let me say that there are no uninhabited
islands or atolls on which these people might make a permanent settlement.
Uninhabited islands in the Marshalls are
uninhabited because they are
incapable of sustaining human
life to any extent, particularly the numbers of people we are
von't it;
on Kili
issioner
made a
fat will
talking about.