And, somehow, George didn't like very much this idea, because he told me he will go to Yugoslavia if he will have to go---something to that extent. I understood that if he goes very well in money that, you know, his financial status requires, he will go to Yugoslavia.
But, at that time, he was preferring to work in Texas and drill wells rather than his foreign work--which he did later after he returned from Yugoslavia.
You see, there actually are two periods in George's life.
Mr. Jenner.
All right. Tell us about it.
Mrs. Voshinin.
Before he went to Yugoslavia and after he went to Yugoslavia. Because of course, I might be quite wrong about it. This is my own impression of the whole thing.
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; well, that's what we want.
Now, you were living here in Dallas when he went to----
Mrs. Voshinin.
Before he went.
Mr. Jenner.
At the time he went to Yugoslavia?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Yes; uh-huh.
Mr. Jenner.
And you had these conversations with him about going to Yugoslavia before he left?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Yes; right.
Mr. Jenner.
And you know he went?
Mrs. Voshinin.
And I know he went; right.
Mr. Jenner.
You know, by reputation, that he went to Yugoslavia?
Mrs. Voshinin.
What reputation?
Mr. Jenner.
Well, by what was said. It was said that he went to Yugoslavia. You do know----
Mrs. Voshinin.
Yes; but then he sent us postcards from Yugoslavia.
Mr. Jenner.
All right.
Mrs. Voshinin.
So, we knew for sure that he was there. And then he brought back---that I know for sure that he went to Yugoslavia---and he brought the photo pictures unmistakably Yugoslavian that he brought back---photographs, you know, that were Yugoslavian.
Some of them I knew--some of the places.
Mr. Jenner.
You knew some of the places in Yugoslavia?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
He was over there about how long?
Mrs. Voshinin.
I thought he was there about a year--something like that.
Mr. Jenner.
And this was when?
Mrs. Voshinin.
I think it was in--now, that I cannot place exactly. I think in 1957--in 1956 and 1957; or 1957 and beginning of 1958. I'm not too sure. But anyway, what I remember that in 1959--it was before 1959, because in 1959 we went to Fifth Petroleum Congress in New York City and there we met George and his old friends from Yugoslavia. So, that would have been the year before that that he went. There was a delegation of Yugoslavian geologists who knew him--and he introduced us.
Mr. Jenner.
And you gathered, from those introductions and talking, that they were people in the Yugoslavian delegation to the Fifth Petroleum Congress who knew George?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Knew George very well; yes.
Mr. Jenner.
And did they speak of his having been there, or what was said that led you to affirm that he had been in Yugoslavia?
Mrs. Voshinin.
Well, for some reason, somehow we could not get together with those people. We just--you know, it's not very easy sometimes to talk to the people from behind the Iron Curtain. And I had definite feeling that they were little bit afraid to talk to us--for some reason.
Mr. Jenner.
Because of your long stay in Yugoslavia, both you and your husband could have spoken with them? You are familiar with----
Mrs. Voshinin.
Oh, they talked our own language. Certainly.
And we just--I just met the whole group once, and then one fellow was there who was brought up also in Banat region--- [spelling] B-a-n-a-t--which is near the town of Panchevo, where I grew up. And he was very eager to talk. And I had the impression that he was definitely afraid.
Mr. Jenner.
Afraid to talk to you?
