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J.G. Winant's attempts, Director of the ILO, to move ILO to Canada; J. Avenol to Carter Goodrich, USA, delegate to ILO, on the League of Nations 1941 budget and ILO survival out of Europe.

Meeting called by J. Avenol: Princeton's invitation, cutting down the League of Nations, J. Avenol's role (wanted to act through a substitute person), J. Avenol's position in accordance with the Swiss Government's wishes and interests (Edouard Rodolphe de Haller, Swiss representative, League of Nations Administrative Commissions and Minorities Section, Mandates Section), League of Nations staff reduction to 100 out of the 600 a year ago; position of the French Government (Vichy) vis-à-vis the League of Nations; loss of confidence of the League of Nations staff in J. Avenol.

S. Lester's refusal to resign; League of Nations crisis: J. Avenol will oblige staff to resign by orders if not voluntarily, B.A. Renborg's wish: to restart the opium work in the USA; R.M.F. Charron, France, (League of Nations Finance and Economic Research Section) back from Vichy on 18 July: France remains in the League of Nations, the condition: no French people at the head of the Secretariat, J. Avenol will have to leave.

J. Avenol's plans for S. Lester, A. Loveday (League of Nations Economic and Financial Section) and Rasmus Ingvald Berentson Skylstad, Norway, (League of Nations Minorities Questions Section): mission to the United States to negotiate the Princeton offer; T. Aghnides and J. Avenol on T. Aghnides' refusal to be in charge of the League of Nations Secretariat with limited powers, J. Avenol did not inform T. Aghnides on instructions received from Vichy to leave, J. Avenol assured T. Aghnides that S. Jacklin, South Africa, Office of the League of Nations Secretary General, Treasury, fully agreed with his plans, untruth; Denmark withdrawal from the League of Nations; Permanent Court of Justice staff treated at Geneva as ordinary diplomats: Switzerland gave hospitality to the staff but did not welcome the Court as an Institution.

Unsent S. Lester's letter (no correspondent name): Princeton University invitation, J. Avenol's plans for the League of Nations staff in accordance with the Swiss Government's wishes (possible indefinite paid leave for half of the League of Nations officials, J. Avenol's determination to remain Secretary-General in a kind of quasi-retirement, elimination of undesired League of Nations elements), French Government's decision to remain in the League of Nations with no French Secretary-General.

Summary on the League of Nations situation: Secretariat crisis, League of Nations officials prepared to resist to J. Avenol's plans until League of Nations transfer or honourable ending.

Communication by the Secretary-General J. Avenol to the League of Nations Members, since no Council, Assembly or Committees meetings were possible; subject: J. Avenol's election as Secretary-General in 1932 at unanimity, the work he did, his efforts, since the war outbreak, to reduce expenses (staff reductions) and ensure that administration and work of Secretariat shall continue, proposal of a date for his resignation; poem quoted by Churchill.

S. Lester requested S. Jacklin's approval, (South Africa, Office of the League of Nations Secretary General, Treasury), on a sort of letter-telegram he wrote (no correspondent name and address mentioned) on the possibility for S. Jacklin to organize office for collecting contributions; S. Lester's note to D. Kelly, British Minister in Berne, summarizing J. Avenol's plans and position, covering June-July period: organization of a centre for the League of Nations Secretariat if the staff were driven out by invasion, J. Avenol's anti-British sentiments and policy of excluding the British from the Secretariat, J. Avenol's wish to misuse the League of Nations for the new European purposes and not its original purposes, J. Avenol's decisions concerning S. Lester's, A. Loveday's and R.I.B. Skylstad's mission to USA and T. Aghnides' new post (in charge of the Secretariat, he would take over from J. Avenol without any Secretary-General status), J. Avenol's proposal to form a kind of "Directoire", reductions of League of Nations staff, J. Avenol's speculations on Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland decisions as regards the League of Nations, J. Avenol's interviews with B.M. Viple (France), ILO official (to get in touch with P. Laval), P. Stoppani and R.M.F. Charron on Vichy's decision as regards the League of Nations, J. Avenol would not resign unless he was given a position enabling him to have control on League of Nations finances and full immunities, formation of a Finance Committee headed by S. Jacklin including J. Avenol, J. Avenol's opinion on the Princeton proposal.

J. Avenol's resignation: A.E. Felkin, United Kingdom, League of Nations Economic and Financial Section, as intermediary to show D. Kelly, British Minister, the draft letter of resignation, A.E. Felkin requested S. Lester's comments on these questions for D. Kelly's information; extract of S. Lester's letter of information to T. Aghnides on J. Avenol's proposed resignation without any consultation with the League of Nations staff about the future.

T. Aghnides on A. Loveday and his group that should not leave: new idea being they represented Anglo-Saxonism and professional antagonism to new plans for a closed European economy; no news from the British Government that should convince J. Avenol to send as many people as possible of the technical Sections to America; E.R. de Haller's resignation, Swiss representative, League of Nations Administrative Commissions and Minorities Section, Mandates Section.