S. Lester's letter to Lord Davies to congratulate him for his book and fine analysis of events, as well as his plans for the future: idea of a British-American Commonwealth (union of power and rights), a good idea because the future of the world would depend a lot upon cooperation between Great Britain and America, but difficult to carry out; another problem: a British-American Commonwealth might cause a reaction from the non-German european states to the London-Washington supremacy and be the prelude to inter-continental wars; S. Lester's belief in the revival of the League of Nations, which gave more promise of stability than the great dream of an Anglo-American union.
S. Lester's letter to R. Makins: letter to Lord Davies forwarded to R. Makins for information; ILO Conference; League of Nations' future (financial situation); ILO's future; Bruce Committee; greater US interest in the future of the League of Nations; Hill proposed as a liaison man for economic and financial questions.
Records (text not available) of Supervisory Commission of 31 July 1941 reached Geneva.
S. Lester met, in Basle, McKittrick, American president of the Bank of International Settlements, to talk on general information, as well as Jacobson, Swedish Economic Adviser to the Bank.
Letter from Robert Collis from Ireland to S. Lester to thank him about the Silver Fleece.
A. Loveday's letter to warn S. Lester, without giving him explanations but only by insinuation, that he was walking straight into a trap about R.M.F. Charron.
Letter from A. Loveday, Director of the League of Nations Economic and Financial Section, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, to S. Lester about staff questions, work planning difficulties concerning mainly two League of Nations staff members Lukac and R.M.F. Charron, as well as difficulties he had to plan his own work since some decisions were taken without prior reference to him as Director.
Extract from A. Loveday's letter to S. Lester on S. Jacklin's wild anti-Axis statements; extract from a letter from Elsie to her husband S. Lester to request his help for an old lady, her neighbour, whose sister-in-law, the husband of whom had been killed, was in a difficult situation in France.
Dr. Karl Barth's lecture entitled "Au nom de Dieu Tout-Puissant", words used in the Constitution of the Swiss Confederation, Professor of Theology at Basle University, although a Swiss, he was one of those who led the battle of the Protestant Church in Germany in the early days of national-socialism, his lecture was on the Swiss alternative: either resist Germany, suffer but keep freedom and honour, or not resist Germany, keep security, work and money, etc. but lose freedom, honour and go back on their neutrality; S. Lester compared the latter attitude with the one of Berne towards the League of Nations, cowardly refusing to pay their contribution because Germany would not like it.
Extract from C.J. Hambro's letter to S. Lester, further to S. Lester's request of the minutes (strictly confidential) of some discussions C.J. Hambro and others had at a meeting, in which S. Jacklin participated.