A. I don’t understand that question. Will you repeat it?
Q. Is it not so that in medical circles and also in public circles these declarations of voluntary consent are regarded with a certain amount of suspicion; that it is doubted whether the person actually did volunteer?
A. Can you be more specific?
Q. In your commission you probably debated how the volunteers should be contacted; is that not so?
A. Yes.
Q. On this occasion was there no discussion of the question that you should assure yourself that no coercion was being exercised, or that the particular situation in which the person found himself who applied was being exploited?
A. Yes. I was concerned with that question.
Q. There were discussions about that?
A. Not necessarily with others, but there was always consideration of that in my own mind.
Q. Witness, a number of documents were submitted yesterday, Friday, from which it was to be seen that volunteers did volunteer, for instance eight hundred or more prisoners applied for a malaria experiment[[167]]; and there was a radio report; all of these persons had a motive for volunteering. What are the motives of a prisoner that persuade him to volunteer?