S. Lester's appointment as J. Avenol's successor as League of Nations temporary Secretary-General.
Russo-German war, Iran occupied by Russian-British forces; Massigli, French ex-Ambassador on the armistice signature; P. Laval was shot by a young Frenchman; Politics on France and the reforms carried out by the Vichy Government and criticized by William Rappard, because if the reforms were in themselves good they were discredited by the French people because they were made by a regime in which the people had no confidence; Darlan's interview in the "Gazette de Lausanne" on the fact that he and A. Hitler planned that France would take over the Suisse Romande and about the League of Nations, what he disliked very much in Switzerland; American press began to have favourable articles on the League of Nations; S. Lester's and A. Loveday's better impression on S. Jacklin, although stories of the Gestapo followed him; Supervisory Commission: ILO better treated than the League of Nations' Secretariat, budget adopted for 1942; S. Lester in Mühlen in the Grisons for rest; apologies from the Chief Censor further to the "watch list" problem.
Include: League of Nations Document, C.20.M.16.1937.VII., Communication from the Spanish Government - Note by the Secretary-General, 6 January 1936.
V. Sokoline, League of Nations Secretariat official, office of the Secretary General: Sudeten Deutsch, Poland, economics.
J. Avenol's departure: his pension planned for 31 August; V.J. Stencek (Czechoslovakia), Economic and Financial Section, Internal Administration, advised by J. Avenol to make peace with Germany by taking Protectorate citizenship; W. Krauel, German Consul General on Weizacker's proposals of saving certain League of Nations services.
James Joyce's letter to S. Lester on the help S. Lester might be able to give to J. Joyce's daughter for her removal to Switzerland.
Philosophical discours.