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Possible Danzig settlement; A. Greiser's possible resignation; High Commissioner as element in bargaining; S. Lester's interesting notes on Danzig events for talks with J. Avenol and members of the Council; S. Lester's contretemps to the first visit of the Italian Consul General, Count Ponzone; S. Lester's appointment with Noel, French Ambassador in Warsaw, one of the finest French diplomats; S. Lester's awareness of his responsibilities and the fact he was sitting at "the most dangerous point" in the European situation, as Noel noticed it.

S. Lester's appointment, on 30 September 1936, as League of Nations Deputy Secretary-General, was entirely J. Avenol's initiative; Secretariat's reactions regarding his appointment; League of Nations Assembly on the admission of the Abyssinian delegation; Locarno Conference; fear of Germany; Osusky, Czechoslovakian Minister in Paris, on Germany, Hitler, and Czechoslovakia; F. Walters' pessimistic view regarding great nations and the League of Nations, as well as a possible aggression launched by Germany; K. Papée on Polish policy and Danzig-Polish relations; S. Lester in Prague to meet Bruins, who used to be the American Consul in Danzig.

About what J. Avenol told to E.J. Phelan in 1940 regarding A. Hitler's view of the League of Nations and the ILO.

De Haller requested R.M.F. Charron to inform J. Avenol, on behalf of the Swiss Government, to abstain from all political activities.

A. Greiser in bad odour in Berlin according to the rumours, he was a man of no initiative, A. Greiser's projected removal, Huth mentioned as his successor, but he was of less personal significance than A. Greiser; parody of the French popular song "Tout va très bien Madame la Marquise" in which J. Avenol replied to anxious enquiries about the League of Nations.

Discussions concluded that there was no need to have J. Avenol to be present at the Assembly and that Avenol's letters were shown unofficially to the members of the Supervisory Commission of which C.J. Hambro was Chairman.

On a special insurance for the High Commissioner in Danzig, and also an insurance for S. Lester's furniture and personal belongings.

Extract from the "Daily Telegraph" on J. Avenol's escape from Savoy to Geneva; stories on the circumstances he left France; J. Avenol's activities; S. Lester's dissatisfaction with J. Avenol's return to Geneva, since he was a source of trouble for the League of Nations.

Annual report on Danzig.

No tangible results of the Polish-Danzig negotiations: the Poles believed the High Commissioner had a role to play; suppression of the Communist Party in Danzig on the grounds that its members held arms and were engaged in the distribution of arms for the purpose of overthrowing the State; note on the talk between S. Lester and K. Papée, Polish Minister, on the negotiations between Danzig and Poland, K. Papée hoped S. Lester to intervene.