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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.

Ernst Grimwald's letter of thanks to S. Lester for the immigration visas he got for himself and his wife.

Review of events: ever-spreading war: Yugoslavia, Crete, Greece, Iraq, etc. and a sudden German attack on Russia, which launched a great crusade against bolchevism; the Swiss Government changed its policy about the League of Nations wireless station and, at the German request, suppressed certain stamps, which bore pictures of the ILO and Palais des Nations; Swiss Authorities decided not to fulfill their financial obligation to the League of Nations; meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill: "The Eight Points" or "Atlantic Charter" unified both countries for war and peace.

Letter from Gretta Lester to S. Lester: family news.

Article from the "Daily Telegraph" entitled "Eire urged to cede ports": J. Dillon's speech, Irish Deputy Leader of the Opposition, urging that Britain and America be given the use of the Irish ports and air bases to prevent the Nazis cutting the life-line between Britain and America, because if Great Britain fell, Ireland would fall too, E. de Valera, Irish Prime Minister, replied 90 per cent of the Irish people believed in neutrality, Ireland was doing its duty to its people and prudence was not cowardice, Cosgrave, Irish Leader of the Opposition, was surprised by J. Dillon's speech.