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S. Lester's letter to S. Jacklin on the League of Nations and the ILO: budget cuts, ILO expansionism, League of Nations financial situation and future.

British offensive from Egypt into Cyreniaca; Weygand kicked out by Vichy on German orders, when he was supposed to be ready to resist a German attack on North African ports.

A wicked, but amusing parady from the "New Statesman", suggesting the launching of an offensive in Western Europe while Hitler is engrossed in Russia.

Letter from Cecil, Duchess of Leeds, stranded, about her sister-in-law and to thank S. Lester for his help.

Feldmans on Latvia: the Germans have declared the property of the German State all properties in Latvia which had been nationalised under the regime of the Latvian-Soviet Republic; for the first time in the history of Latvia, a ghetto was created at Riga; the Latvians who first hoped to find rescue from the Germans, then hoped in their defeat; Feldmans, who believed in the revival of the League of Nations, hoped to see the signing of the peace in the Assembly Hall; a few books read by S. Lester.

Cutting from the "New York Times" on the League of Nations entitled "A branch of the League of Nations appears in New York".

S. Lester's wedding anniversary: 21 years.

S. Lester on the question of his family's coming to Geneva and his loneliness.

Michael MacWhite, Minister to the Quirinal about food problems in Rome; O'Donovan appointed as Chargé at Lisbon; T.J. Kiernan appointed Minister to the Holy See; MacWhite's report on alleged danger to the Vatican; MacWhite on Bewley, formerly Irish Minister in Rome, representative of a swedish news agency, suspected by Italian circles to spy on them in German interest; Italian's food suppliers; the two most unpopular men in Italy were Mussolini and Ciano and corruption was rife in high circles and in the Party; people were sick of the war but there was no leadership for a revolution; as to the Vatican circles they were anti-nazi; S. Lester on the appointments of some American Ministers to Dublin, as well as T.J. Kiernan's appointment, whom it seemed was appointed without the proper letter of credence from the King George, reason why although it was publicly announced that T.J. Kiernan was there as Minister, his diplomatic position in the Vatican was that of Chargé d'Affaires.

Ernst Grunwald, an Austrian textile trader, who was in a civilian camp in Switzerland with his wife and obtained visas thanks to S. Lester's help, requested this latter if he could get visas for his parents and parents-in-law living in Vienna; Robert Vansittart's fierce pamphlet against Germany entitled "Black Record: Germans past and present", R. Vansittart was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1937 and vehemently anti-German.