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Extract from the "Evening Herald": S. Lester appointed High Commissioner of Danzig by the Council of the League of Nations; Poles' protest against his election; S. Lester supported by J. Simon, leader of the British delegation at Geneva.

S. Lester's letter of thanks for a publication on Danzig and the German-Polish problem entitled "Dantzig et quelques aspects du problème germano-polonais", published in 1932 by the Carnegie Foundation; letters dated 24th November and 2nd December from S. Lester resquesting the Carnegie Foundation an English translation of the publication on Danzig; letter dated 28th November from the Secretary-General of the Carnegie Foundation explaining that it only existed an article in English from van Hamel published in the "bulletin de la Conciliation Internationale américaine, no.288".

The Department of External Affairs approved the secondment of S. Lester to the service of the League of Nations for a period of three years, at the end of the period of secondment, S. Lester would revert to a position in the national Service at least equal to the position, namely, that of Principal Officer, which he held.

On S. Lester's fulfilment of his future task at Danzig.

Short biography on S. Lester in view of his appointment as High Commissioner at Danzig.

The League of Nations Council unanimously appointed S. Lester as High Commissioner at Danzig for a period of three years from 15 January 1934; short biography on S. Lester.

S. Lester's personal notes for his farewell speech: after five years, he was resigning his duty as the Irish Representative in Geneva, before undertaking new duties as the Representative of the League of Nations at Danzig.

Lecture (personal notes) on the Sino-Japanese dispute and the Small States, given within the programme of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, 13-18 August 1933.

I- Preamble, II- Outward bound, III- First night in Paris, IV- Geneva, V- The League of Nations, VI- The work of the League of Nations, VIII- Montreux and Chamonix, IX- Edward J. Phelan, X- Farewell, Geneva, XI- Mortished's Paris itinerary, XIII- Conclusion.