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had tried to settle the Korean war on the terms \t wes finally settled
on, I think he would have bees impeached, but I think Eisenhower
looked very good at the time.
[2 wae the right time to say something,
FREMONT-SMITH: Politically the right time.
EISENBUD: Yes, and I think that if Kobayashi, for example, had
tried to make a etatement at that time which was reassuring, they
would have found another chairman for the committee, It's as situple
sethat. Now, who they are, I don't know, it might have been the
Foreign Oflice,
MILLER: What { was trying to get around to is, what happena if
there ie another such incident, eithor here or someplace else? It
would seem to me that one rule of thunw would be to try to get someone who can reassure the people as to what the real circurnstances
are. fe this nat right? Is this not the big difference between the
reactions in Spain in Japan?
EGSENSUD:
That's right,
That's why I think it's important in
the nuclear field that we maintain good contacts with our counter«
parts overszcas. and there are innumerable instencea where potential
difficulties have been aborted by mere letters of short visite either
frum government to government of by representatives, { could
enumerate half a dozen, But in Japan there was no organization,
Japanese acicnce at that point was a pretty amorphous atructure,
You didn’t have an Atomic Energy Commiasion, Dr, Teukamotow
I don’t know where he was in those daya, He is now the head of the
btological part of the AEC over there and if this incident came up,
he would be the man they would liaten to, but [don’t know,
wes no such person in those days,
There
FREMONT-SMITH: Isn't the implication of Dr, Miller's question,
which I think is a very good one, that the State Department should
have a very detailed study of cuitural senthropology of the cultures of
all the different countries and make this a primary concern of the
State Department’ They have done this to sume extent, but not really.
Part of the difficulty has been that our cultural attachés all over the
world are teolated in the embaasies and in the little enclaves and do
not move mith the people. We don't have a suggestion that had been
made ata conference for the State Orpartment back fn 1946 and 1947,
that there should be a systematic effort ta put atudents in cultural
anthropology. These students would be writing theses, doing field