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J. Avenol received by Marshal Pétain in Vichy, as well as Colonel Bach, a new Prefet, a former military expert, who was J. Avenol's personal agent in Paris; expulsion of Russia from the League of Nations.

German meeting of the anti-Kommintern signatories in Berlin; C. Burckhardt in London on Red Cross business; intrigue of E.R. de Haller, Swiss representative and his appointment on Red Cross Committee; dismissal of Weygand from his post in North Africa seemed to be the result of a direct request from Hitler, which coincided with the British offensive in Cyrenaica; increasing pressure on Vichy to make a separate peace: question of the cession of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and of Nice to Italy.

Lord Derwent, attaché at Legation for cultural affairs; Jacobson, Swedish Economic Adviser to the International Bank of Settlements in Basle.

Part of the letter from S. Lester to S. Jacklin: further comments on the uncertain future of the League of Nations and its financial difficulties and on the ILO, which was, on the contrary, useful for internal American politics.

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".