Do you visit your child?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I used to. Right now I have a great deal of difficulty in visiting my daughter, Nadya, because she wants to live with me, you see.

Mr. Jenner.

The daughter?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. The daughter, yes. And she thinks that by living in Texas her health will improve. Now, the mother thinks it is just the opposite that if she lives in Texas that she will die, because of the inadequate medical facilities. So we had rather bitter litigation last year as to--I tried to take the custody away from her, because of various reasons--mainly, I think that the daughter would be happier with me, and with my new wife. And the little girl has developed a tremendous liking for my new wife. But the court decided that--we went into such bitter fighting, that I stopped this litigation in the middle, and I said, "I am going to Haiti anyway. Let's leave things as they are for a year. I am not going to see Nadya for a year, on the condition that she will get all my letters, all my gifts, and that I get a medical report from her every 4 months." And the poor girl is also under psychiatric treatment.

Mr. Jenner.

Who is?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Nadya, my little girl. She is under psychiatric treatment--because of her illness, and also she developed a dislike for the other members of her family, for her half brothers and sisters, because they are healthy, and she is not.

Mr. Jenner.

I take it that your former wife--there had been some children born of her present marriage?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; who have no cystic fibrosis.

Mr. Jenner.

All right. Now, when the divorce took place, your wife filed suit in Philadelphia, didn't she?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; the suit was filed in Dallas.

Mr. Jenner.

She commenced it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes.

Mr. Jenner.

Did you resist it?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; we came to an agreement that we would get a divorce anyway. I don't know what you call it in legal terms. The lawyers made an agreement that, here it is, you see. We decided to sell our house and settle our accounts.

Mr. Jenner.

Property?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Property settlement. And I think it was very fair for her, just as my lawyer, Morris Jaffe, can tell you the whole story about that.

Mr. Jenner.

Now, upon your divorce from Wynne, or Didi, Sharples, did you remain in Dallas?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I stayed in Dallas, carried on my consulting work in the same manner, concentrating mostly from then on on the foreign end of this business.

Mr. Jenner.

What do you mean foreign end?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I started taking more and more foreign jobs. In 1956 I took a job in Haiti for a private--for some private individuals connected with Sinclair Oil Company.

Mr. Jenner.

When was that?
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In 1956--just before our divorce, I think. We were already separated. Then we must have been divorced the end of 1956.
Sorry--too many marriages, too many divorces. So I started taking more and more foreign jobs. And, also, in my relationship with Mr. Sharples, because my ex-wife's father--I did some foreign work for him, mainly in Mexico. He had some foreign exploitation in Mexico, some oil operations in Mexico. Anyway, I started getting a lot of foreign jobs--maybe jobs in Nigeria.

Mr. Jenner.

I want to know what countries you were taken to in connection with those.
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, all in all, I visited and I did foreign work, which means preparation for taking of concessions and suggestion of what areas should be taken for an oil and gas concessions---it was in Nigeria, in Togoland, in Ghana, in France I may have forgotten with some other countries where

Mr. Jenner.

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