Letter dated 4 April 1938 from S. Lester to an editor requesting him an article for "The New Northman".
M. Melas (Greece), Permanent Delegate at the League of Nations, appointed by his Government to a post in the Legation at Berne, according to S. Lester it was to be feared that this decision weakened the general position of the League of Nations' Permanent Delegates.
France decided to leave the League of Nations: Admiral Darlan informed S. Lester of this decision, but France continued to cooperate with ILO and the League of Nations technical organs; articles on the French decision: "Liquidation" by a journalist in the "Tribune de Genève", "Courrier de Vichy" by Eugène Fabre, the pro-German correspondent of "La Suisse", cutting from "Le Temps" on "Le retrait de la France de la Société des Nations".
Extract from the "Irish Independent": review of A.C. Temperley's book "The whispering gallery of Europe"; AC. Temperley was one of the Britain's chief representatives, acting as military adviser; photograph of S. Lester.
Meeting of Supervisory Committee proposed for 2 June in the USA, S. Lester's presence essential, but danger of being cut off from his post.
Extract from "The Irish Times": Presidency of Ireland; Anglo-Irish Pact.
Princeton cable to S. Lester from Dodds, President of Princeton University, Aydelotte, President of Institute for Advanced Studies, and Tenbroek, Rockefeller Research Institute at Princeton, expressing warm satisfaction for the technical nonpolitical work associated with the League of Nations; Berne policy of non-collaboration; inaugural reception of the "Académie Diplomatique Internationale" at the Villa "Mon Repos".
Extract from the "Dublin Evening Mail" on the Presidency of Ireland.
S. Lester applied for visas for family; question of Health Section transfer: no official invitation from the USA.
Extract from the "Irish Press".