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penhagen during the second week of June, I was 

 at once called to the American Legation and 

 there shown a long and voluminous correspond- 

 ence by cable between Secretary Kellogg of the 

 State Department in Washington and Count Re- 

 ventlow, the Danish Foreign Minister. Hassell's 

 application had referred to the cooperation of the 

 University of Michigan Expeditions, of which 

 there had already been two — those of 1926 and 

 1927. A long cablegram had gone back to Wash- 

 ington that the foreign office had never heard of 

 these Michigan Expeditions. After several ex- 

 changes it had occurred, it seems, to Count Re- 

 ventlow to confer with the Ministry of the Interior 

 and the Director for Greenland, the Honorable 

 Daugaard-Jensen, whereupon the discovery was 

 made that the matter had been fully covered by 

 correspondence. 



A rather startling request was now made of 

 me. The flight would be permitted, I was told, 

 if it could be connected with the University of 

 Michigan Expeditions. After first making sure 

 that no financial responsibility would be fastened 

 upon the Expedition, this was agreed to and a 

 despatch was at once sent off to the State Depart- 

 ment which supplied the permission for the flight. 



In Hassell's interest and at the request of Ma- 



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