Mr. Slawson. Is it correct that the Embassy reply you are referring to is the one that is quoted on page 6?
Miss Johnson. Right.
Mr. Slawson. Of your exhibit No. 5?
Miss Johnson. Right.
Mr. Slawson. Did he show you any communications he had received from his family or anybody else?
Miss Johnson. No. He told me that—again there is a little more here than is in the notes but it is partly a matter of impression. He was avoiding hearing from them, and they called him, and he said it was to ask him to come back, and he wouldn't answer. How did he know they were asking him to come back if he didn't answer? He was full of those kinds of contradictions, but that he was avoiding them. As far as I recollect he didn't show me anything from his family.
Mr. Slawson. Did he tell you why he was avoiding communications with his family?
Miss Johnson. No.
Mr. Slawson. Did he——
Miss Johnson. Well, maybe he felt his resolve was shaky. I felt his resolve was shaky, and maybe he felt so too, and he was afraid if he talked to them they would talk him out of it.