205 



We shall be pleased to receive your remittance at the very earliest 

 opportunity and in order to prevent any further delays, we are 

 assuming that this will be coming forward and consequently, we 

 have asked Frigidaire Ltd., to get the equipment down immediately 

 as we understand from Mr. Stuttard that he wishes to leave Jersey 

 by the end of July. 



Even by this date, i ith July 1953, there had been no cable from 

 Stuttard, and now this letter had disturbing implications. It im- 

 plied that by the 6th July, when this Jersey firm wrote, Stuttard 

 knew that he could not leave before the 15th, and so, according 

 to his own statement, if he came at all he intended to take the 

 Mediterranean route.* Nielsen was due to join Stuttard on the 

 loth July, and I doubted whether he would be prepared to wait at 

 Jersey until the end of that month, which this last letter indicated 

 as sailing time. 



Nothing further happened until the i6th, which brought a 

 letter from Stuttard dated 9th July 1953 in which he informed me, 

 among other matters, that Nielsen was due to arrive next day, and 

 that he would be informed about the situation (see p. 206). He 

 went on to say that to prevent an absolute fiasco he advised me to 

 send everything to Mozambique and he would be there in ample 

 time. 



On the 1 6th July 1953 I sent a cable to Stuttard as follows: 

 'Letter ninth received confirm ending co-operation writing Smith.* 



On the 23rd July 1953 a letter dated the i8th arrived from Stut- 

 tard, in which he informed me that he was in touch with the 

 French and Danish Embassies with a view to participating in an 

 international expedition, and that he had made a statement to 

 the President of the South African Council of Scientific and 

 Industrial Research and to the Acting Secretary of External 

 Affairs. 



On the 2ist July 1953 a letter dated i6th July arrived from Niel- 

 sen, in which he stated : 



The loth July I arrived at Jersey expecting to leave from there 

 one of the next days with La Contenta. Mr. Stuttard informed me, 

 however, that the actual departure would not take place before the 

 end of July, and that moreover the boat would go via Suez instead 



* See letter from Nielsen, p. 206. 



