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Possible candidates to the post of Director of the International Labour Office: E.J. Phelan and S. Lester to succeed to Harold B. Butler; photograph of S. Lester.
S. Lester's personal letter (not sent) addressed to James Dillon in Berne: S. Lester never met J. Dillon, but had once an opportunity to meet his father, a great gentleman of forceful personality; S. Lester's anxieties for the future of Ireland; about Irish policy; J. Dillon, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, just made a speech in favour of Ireland joining Anglo-American circle in the war.
Extract from the "Irish Times" on ex-journalists changing work and becoming famous such as S. Lester in international affairs.
S. Lester's letter to F.T. Cremins : problem with a diplomatic bag.
A. Sweetser's degree; Byrd and the League of Nations; former Ambassador Dodd's speech and the League of Nations; League of Nations abandoned by all.
Letter addressed to S. Lester by someone having just arrived at Princeton on: the journey to Princeton, and the situation and state of mind in Princeton.
S. Lester's letter to F.T. Cremins: Irish parliamentary papers; S. Lester's opinion on Irish newspapers: uninteresting, because without news not merely on the general war situation but on all sorts of things.
On S. Lester's family: Tyrrell was Elsie Lester's brother.
Yugoslavia conquered by the Germans, British forces and Greece in grave danger; article "Du côté de l'Ariana": visit of the Palais of the League of Nations, constrast between the empty Palais des Nations in 1941, and the Palais des Nations and the League of Nations' numerous activities in 1938.
Cable from Gretta Lester: good news, received after heavy bombardment of Belfast and neighbourhood.