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July 18, 1955 
Air Kail 
Mr, Eobert Q. McCregor 
American Consulate General 
Leopoldville, Belgian Congo 
Dear Mr, McGregors 
I have carefully read that Foi^ign Service Despatch (Department’s 
CA-6593, March 31, 1955) concerning the Saithaonian Bredin lipedition 
and appreciate your forthrightness and plain speaking, I would that I 
could make amends for all the trouble I gave you in connection with our 
recent ®iq)edition and its many problems of one kind or another, I ssy 
now as I have before and shall again that no one could have done more, 
and few would have attempted and accmplished as much, as you did in 
our behalf. 
The failure to see Mr, ?anhee, as you advised me by wire to Lwiro, 
was just one of those things. You have no idea how I felt inside when 
we were lining things up at Qabiro, preparatory to crossing the border 
the next day, idien it dawned on me that we did not have that transit 
paper. If it had been humanly possible to have gone back for it, it 
would have been done but it was two days back by auto and there was no 
plane to be had for love car money and the biweekly Nile steamer was 
leaving #uba on May 29. You did say tha Mr. Yanhee knew about us and 
iK)uld be able to help us (I do not have your wire before me, it’s packed 
with papers yet to arrive by surface mail from Cairo), From letters frcro 
the office, I had gathered that despite great efforts on the part of the 
State D^ar^ent clearance of our outfit could not be obtained. After 
all our experiences with Customs, (and all connected with that service 
proved that they were as sympathetic and helpful within their means and 
regulations as could be) I did not expect to receive more than similar 
courtesy at Usumbura. Besides, everyone about us was talking Mcitumba 
where we would be crossing the border into Uganda. But that Is not the 
reason I didn't go. It may have pjpoduced a psychological block but there 
were moments, after I realized too late that I’d missed seeing Mr, Yanhee, 
that I would liave given my right hand to have made good the oversight. 
As I wrote you the visit Dr*. Sexton and I paid Dr. Harroy put the Yanhee 
call entirely out of my mine, IS*. %ker and young Sexton, »dio were left 
behind in Bukavu to follow us to Uviro, switched signals and joined us 
again at Astrida. 
