Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; sometimes it annoys me to have somebody who
does not know anything about conditions anywhere else in the world
attack while he is himself actually a Communist. You see what I mean?
A Communist to me, in a bad sense, is somebody who does not believe in
free discussion. So it annoys me that somebody Bircher will tell me,
"George, we are for freedom here." I said, "Just the opposite, you are
not for freedom."
Mr. JENNER. That is, you have taken the position that the Bircherites
are not for freedom?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't like that movement personally. I dislike
it very much. I have run into trouble lately in Texas before I left
with some of my clients who were very much inclined in that direction.
For instance, they object to the United Nations. They put words in
my mouth. I remember one day they said, "George, would you believe
in abolition of the Army in the United States and creating an
international force?"
I said, "No."
He said, "Well, that is what the United Nations stands for."
Mr. JENNER. Well----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I get sometimes into heated discussions and
sometimes I say things which maybe you don't think. But I may have
insulted some other people's feeling, because I don't have a hatred
against anybody. I don't hate communism--hell, let them live.
Mr. JENNER. You don't hate it for somebody else, but you don't want it
yourself?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't want it myself; no.
Mr. JENNER. Your whole stay in Yugoslavia, however, was in connection
with the International Cooperation Administration?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I am glad that you reminded me of that. I
developed an idea, being in Yugoslavia, of forming a joint venture to
use Yugoslav workers and American equipment.
Mr. JENNER. What workers?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yugoslav workers, who are very good and very
inexpensive, to do some drilling in Arabic countries, and using
American equipment. One of my clients is John Mecom in Houston, who,
among other things, controls Cogwell Oil Well Equipment Co. in Wichita,
Kans. And he has been having a hard time selling his equipment lately.
So one day we were discussing in Houston what could we do to promote
the use of his equipment. And we came to a conclusion that it might be
a good idea to form a joint venture, American-Yugoslav joint venture,
using cheap Yugoslav labor, and very good labor, to drill in Arabic
countries, because there is a great future of doing this, you see.
And John Mecom sent me to Yugoslavia in 1958 to look at the possibility
of forming such a venture.
Mr. JENNER. Excuse me. Was this the same year you were in Yugoslavia
for the International----
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; the next year. This was in 1958.
Mr. JENNER. Were you then married?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. You had married your present wife?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I think so. I hope I am right on my dates.
Yes--I think we were married then. Anyway, I went by myself to
Yugoslavia.
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