Transcription: G E N E V A, June 12th, 1940. My dear Arthur, Your letter of the 4th has arrived this moment. I had the intention a few days ago of writing to you and now take your letter as a spur. First our old friend Frank, has gone. On Saturday morning the 25th of May at 7.45 a.m. he called on me while I was having my coffee in bed to tell me that he had decided to go and at once. The matter had been discussed a fortnight before that, by him and Avenol and Avenol had written an agreed letter to Halifax saying that Frank was needed here. When he came to see me it was clear the matter had gone beyond discussion, but I felt it sufficiently to say I had spent the early part of my life working for what then seemed a lost cause and perhaps I was fated to spend my later years following another, but, for the present at any rate, I was convinced my place lay here and I would stay while that conviction remained, if our Old Man did not make it impossible. Three days later Frank had left and his furniture had been removed to the League. The family had already gone a fortnight before to Hendaye. You had left before our most hectic days which were the 14th to the 18th of May when suddenly Switzerland felt under a very immediate threat of invasion. The invasion was expected literally from moment to moment during the nights of the 15th and 16th. You can guess there was furor and rapid measures taken all over Switzerland and in these we had our part. Unfortunately, as you may remember, it had not been allowed that preliminary arrangements should be made while there was a certain amount of tranquility. The result was that a plan had to be drawn up within literally a few hours. I had no time to feel any personal concern but I shall never forget that week. If you remind me some time, I shall give you a few thumb-nail sketches. To go back to Frank, he reached Bordeaux probably a week ago to try to get a ship for England leaving the family at Hendaye, but I have no news since: he hopes to get work in the F.O., but a letter written from the F.O. several days after his departure from Geneva to Avenol said that they believed his place for the time being was here. Avenol is of course wild about it and hardly prepared to make sufficient allowance for the emotional call of work at home. You will probably have a letter from Frank as soon as this reaches you, telling you what he thought. Arthur SWEETSER, Es 8 West 40th Street NEW YORK   (U.S.A.)

Transcription: P1/8 (4) From Arthur Sweetser, USA recvd 12/6 by Clipper Dear Sean: Thanks for your cable ["Go Slow" cable] just come; I hope you will let me know whenever anything developes that I can do on this side. My one great desire is to be of some small utility in this grim moment. I've just written a long letter to Loveday on a question he and I discussed before I left and want to send you a copy both because you are deeply interested and because there is always a chance of a letter getting lost. Undoubtedly you have discussed the matter between you already; there are one or two further things I would like to add. First, what is said for Loveday's work goes also for the other technical and non-political. If we could work out something like this for the economic and financial, I am sure we could also do so for the health, particularly as there is a branch of the Rockefeller Institute at Princeton, and for the opium . . . possibly others. There is not however, much use in going into that unless and until the underlying question of principle is established. From inquiries so far, however, I feel convinced that, if worse comes to worst, the possibility you and I once discussed of a split of the political to one country and the technical here can be worked out so far as this end is concerned. I need not stress again in this letter to you the importance such a transfer would have for the future. It would open the most interesting possibilities and personalize this work to a degree otherwise impossible. Even apart from all other considerations, if we see the future in a large and long view, this alone would justify a bold and, after all, a temporary step.Certainly we will need more than ever to widen out and seek new support and friends . . and this gives an exceptional opportunity. I feel most strongly that, entirely apart from any technical reasons, there are other and more compelling reasons which would make the gamble very much worth while. Everything is now fluid; all of us need movement and fresh air; I'm sure this would be invaluable in opening a new chapter both for us and for our friends who only ask to help. We'll always come back to our moorings . . I'd like to write you a book about general tendencies here. Perhaps the quickest way of saying it, however, is to say that I am both astonished and deeply gratified at the swing of opinion. I always told you our people were emotional and highstrung, that they could be swept by a prairie-fire, but that is happening even more rapidly than I anticipated. The clippings enclosed are typical; the country is both roused and alarmed. It is very different from the last war in the sense that the reactions then were general and impersonal; today they are specific and extremely national. It is not only a question of theory or idealism; it is a very direct national interest. We are infinitely more a part of the world now than then; we feel oursleves touched in a hundred different ways and in a score of different places. If things continue abroad on the present line, I would not want to try to predict where American policy will go . . . I can't tell you how many times a day my thoughts turn to old friends in Geneva . . and you would be gratified to know how many questions are put to me by friends here. Gerig gave a very nice reception for us at the League pavilion, which, incidentally, is functioning finely, with 8000 visitors last Sunday alone . . and all sorts of old associates turned up. There is a loyalty here which will some day come into its own . . . All best luck to you, Sean, and if you get a chance, do drop me a line as to things in Geneva; I el at the other end of the world, with reams of misinformation:  Signed   A. S. une 4, 1940

Transcription: P1/8 (4) press its approval and the League could accept. In any event, when I raised this possibility with Grady and asked if he thought I should see Rieffler he was keenly for it. Again good-fortune smiled, for Rieffler was in town for the first time in three weeks. We dined and spent the evening together and I found him mo enthusiastic. For the past year, he told me, he had been groping around for a way to help the economic and financial work and prevent its dispersal or crippling in the present crisis. He had talked with the Foundation people and found a ready support there, but this idea appealed to him as the best possible answer, if it were possible on the other side. He agreed most warmly with the Princeton end, as he naturally would, and urged me to come down there at once to see the facilities, as I shall in a couple of days. He thought we could get a double invitation, from the University and his Institute, and felt sure the Foundation would do anything necessary on the material side. He thought it would be a crime if such a magnificent staff as you had built up with such labor were dispersed and he would certainly go the limit to assure that it were not. Incidentally, he, too, while fully appreciating the reasons, regretted that his committee had not come together this Spring. It was on the basis of these interviews that I cabled you as I did. I had no knowledge, naturally, as to how the situation stood on your side, since my departure and the incredible events which have followed, but I had the feeling that, if you continued to be interested in the idea of coming to this side, everything was very well in place for it. I am convinced that you would get the warmest welcome and most complete cooperation from government, university, institute, and foundation. The matter of invitation could be arranged, as outlined; the passport and other facilities could, I judge from Grady and even Thompson, be facilitated; the physical facilities at Princeton would be both good and central; the expenditure side could undoubtedly be facilitated by our other friends. In other words, the door seem to me to be open on the best of terms, if it be deemed wise to enter it . . . By facilities and other good results, I had in mind that, with communication as difficult as it is in Europe, there is an immense amount of material coming in here from all sides, both official and private, which I feel sure could be made available.I am inclined to think you would get as least as much data on Europe and infinitely more on extra-Europe than at present. The contacts which could be established here would be invaluable. So also the other and larger results. It is my belief that, if this country gave asylum now in this moment of emergency, it would be integrated for ever. Our people are sentimental, as you know; the fact of coming to aid now would create a bond which would be permanent. The country would, in a sense, become identified with, and a part of, this work; you would have it for good if this rather dramatic step were taken.I need not stress, of course, that, however the war comes out, the extra-European end will have an importance it has never had before. To my mind, our future is more intercontinental than European. Nor need we fear the SLIGHTEST criticism or opposition. The time for that is long past. I am amazed at the change in opinion here; things that one would be hung for saying a month ago are now common-place. God knows where we will be a month hence, and, while this letter does not pretend to cover the general situation, I enclose a couple of things which are symptomatic. I wish we could have a talk; there is a lot here for encouragement if there is only time . . . . I need not say that my thoughts are constantly with you all on the other side and that I am going what little I can to be of help. With all best wishes June 4,1940

Transcription: Dear Alec: I am doing this to get tonight's Clipper, as your cable requested, and on my own machine to avoid curious...and expensive...strange stenographers. About the only bit of good-fortune which I seem to know of in these grim days has been that which permitted me within my first 72 hours here to make all the principal contacts I desired to make in connection with the question you put to me at your house just before I left. Happily enough, the boat got in in the early morning so that I had time to disentangle myself from Customs and get up to Rockefeller Center for lunch with Raymond Fosdick. I found him most cordial and friendly, and, while in the uncertain circumstances, I did not press the matter between us, I am sure his view is unchanged. That feeling was strengthened at lunch the next day with young John Rockefeller and today in a telephone conversation with Willetts, whom I am seeing tomorrow. That same evening, by coincidence, there was a meeting of the National Board of the L of N Association, to which I was invited as usual. A full report was made, inter alia, on Dr Woolley's Committee on the technical and non-political work which is apparently developing most happily. The Warm and cordial letter of the President had become definitive and a couple of days later was released to the press and given good display, as you will see from the enclosed. Miss Woolley arrives here tomorrow; we can use her committee in any way that seems desirable. Though May 30 was a holiday, I again had the good luck, in going down to Washington, to catch Herbert Feis for lunch, and Thompson, whom you remember, and who is now in charge of such matters, for dinner. I did not proceed in detail with either, for the moment, but felt around sufficiently to be sure that the situation is favorable and that any help we wish will be available. The following day I caught Grady for lunch, in between two trips around the country. To him, I told the whole story and was gratified indeed at his instantaneous and warm response. He offered to do anything he could to help and thought the transfer would be a very auspicious one, if it were decided to make it. He rather surprised me by expressing regret that the Committee had not met this Spring, as planned, though of course he understood the reasons; he said he would have liked to have gone over and thought the President would have wanted him to. As I had thought the question out on the steamer coming over, it had taken quite a bit more definite form than when we discussed it in Geneva. First it seemed to me that, if such a transfer were made, it ought not to be to Washington, for obvious political reasons, and it better not be to New York, where the work, though facilitated in some ways, would be overshadowed and lost. I then groped around in my own mind for a cultural or university center, and the thought of Princeton came to me. This, as you know, is the seat both of a University and the Advanced Institute of which Rieffler is a member and is about one hour from New York and three from Washington. It thus has advanced work going on there, is centrally located amongst friends, is also the seat of a Rockefeller Institute branch, and by coincidence, the University of Woodrow Wilson. If something of this sort were desired, it would, as I explained to Grady, have another advantage in that it would turn the embarassing question of an initiative or an invitation. I imagine the League might not like to ask for an invitation to non-Member territory; in the same way, it might be difficult for a non-Member government to volunteer such an invitation in the blue. If, however, a great university set the ball rolling, the government could ex-

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