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10 March 1936
Pp 274/1/98-99 · Document · 1936.03.10
Part of Private Archives

Hitler's Bombshell created consternation in Europe, follow-up of Hitler's announcement, reactions of France, Great-Britain and Poland, France has appealed to the Council of the League of Nations.

10 March 1938
Pp 274/1/236-238 · Document · 1938.03.10
Part of Private Archives

Lord Halifax, new Foreign Secretary in London further to A. Eden's resignation, on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech: United Kingdom's attitude towards the League of Nations.

10 March 1941
Pp 274/1/725-728 · Document · 1941.03.10
Part of Private Archives

S. Lester, T. Aghnides and Bova Scopa, Italian Minister at Lisbon, formerly on the Italian Delegation and lately Italian Consul General in Geneva, on war; A. Eden, Foreign Minister, visited the Near East, Ankara and Athens; Goebbels announced attack on Britain; Frank Aiken, the Co-ordinating Defence Minister in Dublin, tried to get more arms from America; Colonel Donovan, a so-called unofficial American representative, who visited all the Balkan capitals, met E. de Valera in Dublin; many people expected the attack on England to be launched through Ireland.

10 March 1941
Pp 274/2/768 · Document · 1941.03.10
Part of Private Archives

M. Melas (Greece), Permanent Delegate at the League of Nations, appointed by his Government to a post in the Legation at Berne, according to S. Lester it was to be feared that this decision weakened the general position of the League of Nations' Permanent Delegates.

10 November 1939
Pp 274/1/382-386 · Document · 1939.11.10
Part of Private Archives

Real war soon: partial mobilisation in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland; curious affair in Munich: Hitler celebrated the birthday of Nazism, left quickly just before a bomb exploded, according to C. Burckhardt and J. Avenol it was the Gestapo's action to prepare opinion for ruthless war and reprisals; S. Lester's family affairs; list of members, including S. Lester, of the Honorary and Executive Committees of the "Maison internationale des étudiants"; Raymond Fosdick's letter, Rockefeller Foundation, on the United States opinion of war.

10 November 1941
Pp 274/2/859-860 · Document · 1941.11.10
Part of Private Archives

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.

10 September 1937
Pp 274/1/197 · Document · 1937.09.10
Part of Private Archives

The League of Nations Council begins, as well as the Mediterranean Conference.

10 September 1939
Pp 274/1/328-330 · Document · 1939.09.10
Part of Private Archives

Swiss opinion on war; petrol restrictions; Poland situation and attitude of mind; blame against Poland may fall on Colonel J. Beck personally.

10 September 1940
Pp 274/1/581-586 · Document · 1940.09.10
Part of Private Archives

Letter of A. Loveday (United Kingdom), League of Nations Economic and Financial Section, to S. Lester: life and work at Princeton, USA.