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Diary 8: May - December 1940
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Transcription: P1/8 (10) Geneva, July 20th, 1940. Dear McKinnon Wood, I have received your letter and I think I may catch you before you go on the boat. The news which was broadcast throughout Europe by two or three news Agencies that I had left Geneva was of course quite untrue. We have been living in the midst of drama or melodrama here with all sorts of unhappy plotting and planning, but the wariest schemes can be rendered difficult by a little quiet passive stubbornness. Two plans were mooted since you left which affected myself: one was paid holidays of undefined length with the prospect of being able to get home and the other was a mission to the United States; both have been turned down. Then came the somewhat startling news that the Big, Big Chief was being requested by his own government quietly to adbicate, this being the only change they required as far as they were concerned. There have been various other plans under consideration but the Imperial Mind, at the moment slightly disorientated, is I am afraid likely to be moved by less grandiose and more spiteful motives. It is all very unpleasant sticking this sort of thing. I wish you all the best and certainly hope we shall meet somehow somewhere. You were a tremendous pillar of strength to the Administration and the League owes you a debt. Give my best regards to Craig McGeachy and bon voyage to all. Yours sincerely, in ink S L Mr. McKinnon Wood, Hotel Central, Sintra, Lisbon Portugal.
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Transcription: in your integrity and courage. So do I. And I send you all God speed. Yours. Craig
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Transcription: at the rate of about four a month and we are clearly among friends here. The developments re my London job are as follows: They advise me not to come expecting anything permanent there, but are now enquiring in Washington to see whether their people there could add to their staff. If the answer is in the affirmative I shall be asked to go to London for two or three months training : if in the negative I shall continue to direct my path toward home and leave. But I think the resolution of a vague position into this clear alternative rather satisfactory. Of course what would be nicest would be to be needed in the new League set up. Even if this were the case, some of us should go to visit London where there is great interest. Would you like to send me there for you? Everyone on the staff believes in you
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Transcription: P1/8 (9) and that there should be more reality in political thinking. This was Kent's view too, apparently. He said : Why should the U.K. have the same voting power as Ecuador! Please write a nice note to M. da Matta for me, and then when you come to Lisbon send your card to the Banque de Portugal where his offices are. You would be most interested in him and he in you. They are very cheered in this country about the British–Port.– Spanish accord. At the same time Portugal has lately received assurances from Spain and Germany, and the Bank of England is next week going to open an unlimited credit for the Banque de Portugal. The British Ambassador confers stars and orders on Portuguese professors
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