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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.

S. Lester's birthday: still 50.

Letter from S. Lester's daughter; Supervisory Commission: at a "meeting of State Members" in London, all agreed to maintain the League of Nations structure and activities; Vichy reports on the death of collaborationism and even Darlan's supposition that Germany could not win war.

R. Makins' letter to S. Lester: the Supervisory Commission meeting in Montreal, which was a success apart from the absence of S. Lester, main topics to ensure the existence of the League of Nations and approval of a budget; American State Department's position towards the League of Nations; C.J. Hambro and the Bruce Committee idea.

Luncheon at Vichy with Feldmans, the Latvian Minister and Jean Martin of the "Journal de Genève": Feldmans' contradictory feelings (enthusiasm and then disillusion) on the German attack on Russia, occupation of Latvia by the German troops.

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.

S. Lester's letter to A. Sweetser: the restricted nature of the Secretary General's report, a note on "the deserted Palace", Rockefeller's letter, and the Supervisory Commission.