Word: juda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the proclamation was being considered by the State Council, grey-bearded, scholarly Rabbi Juda L. Fishman spoke for the Mizrachi, or orthodox Jews. He asked that the word Elohenu (Our Lord) be used. Agricultural Minister Aron...
...Rongerik Atoll, "King" Juda of Bikini and his people prepared to move again. They had never quite understood why the U.S. Navy wanted their island; they were told it would be "something good for mankind," and so they agreed. Now, after a year and a half on smaller, less fertile Rongerik, they were ailing. So the Navy prepared Chapter Two in the Bikini odyssey. Juda and his people were to be shipped to Ujelang Atoll, 400 miles to the west. Ujelang, it was explained, was larger, more fertile. But what ailed Juda's people most was homesickness. "We want...
...King Juda, the Paramount Chief of Bikini, and his gentle, easy-living and pious (missionary-converted) people had gracefully consented to move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...counted on terrible destruction at Bikini to forestall homesickness. But the bomb, terrible enough by white men's standards, had not felled a single spindly palm on Bikini's scraggly head. The surrounding water was still dangerously radioactive last week-but that meant nothing to King Juda. In his plea to Commodore Ben Wyatt, the Kwajalein commander, King Juda recalled how wonderful the fishing had been at home on Bikini...
...Atomic Age, how can an Allied Military Government deal with such a feudal society? For the loss of Bikini, compensation should be paid. But to whom? Will it be democratic to pay Juda rather than his people? If Juda gets the bounty, will that not mean de facto recognition of his regime? Is this a UNO problem...