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André Maurois' writing: "Tragedy in France"; remedies of S. Lester's English friend on the causes of the collapse of a country.

Elizabeth Wiskeman, "Press Attaché" in London, returned to the British Legation; S. Lester, tired of her, said "no Englishman (or woman) should open his mouth about Ireland", however her books were interesting.

S. Lester's comments in reply to A. Sweetser's letter about publicity made on the League of Nations: no mention about the difficulties S. Lester faced to maintain the League of Nations headquarters at Geneva and get enough money to carry on vital technical activities, no mention about the fact that the more efforts made for economies and they were tremendous, the more they demanded; for publicity two things are needed: one is work or results and the other is an adequate press service, but the second is absolutely useless without the former; no mention about the fact that nothing mattered that was not on the American continent; Welles' speech was almost the only public declaration by any statesman on the League of Nations; for governments the decline in activity and importance of the League of Nations was more striking than what had been kept and what had been done; S. Lester wished the Supervisory Commission to visit Geneva.

US paper report on Ireland entitled "Eire faced a difficult winter" 1941: Eire had to face food rationed, shortages of coal, gasoline, electric power, cars, etc., rising of unemployment and a cold winter.

Radiogramm to S. Lester.

Call from Harrison, USA Minister, to ask S. Lester to stay at the Legation; beastliness stories on Jews in Rumania reported by Megahle, Portuguese Minister to the League of Nations, in post in Bukharest.

German press samples on the Nazis and their birth policy: young German girls were incited to have babies for Hitler and Germany at any price; Catholic Bishops of Germany denounced the use of lethal chambers for "useless" human beings.

"Civil & Military Gazette": S. Lester's report for 1940-1941: the League of Nations was still carrying on but with a reduced staff and budget; after the war it will be essential to restore the mechanism of international life to avoid a return to war.

S. Lester's letter to F.T. Cremins: Irish parliamentary papers; S. Lester's opinion on Irish newspapers: they were uninteresting, because without news not merely on the general war situation but on all sorts of things; meeting between Rosevelt and F. Aiken, Co-ordinating Defence Minister in Dublin: the latter tried to get arms from America, but Rosevelt not convinced Irish people will resist German aggression; J. Dillon's speech was a courageous denouncement of Nazism, according to S. Lester.

Birthday greetings telegram to S. Lester.