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Diary 10: April - December 1941
Item 138
Transcription: As I am writing towards the end of the year, I take this chance to say again to you how much I have appreciated your indefatigable and valuable work. * * * 4 - I hear that Thanassis has written to you on what seemed to be the impression that certain people were taking advantage of their position to boost one League organization as against another; if this were so, I would consider it extremely short sighted. There are cases where the so-called smart tactics of ruthless businessmen applied in a different field are not only deplorable, but not likely to pay really in the long run. Don't imagine that I am being acquiescent. 5 - I have not yet got all the records of the ILO Conference; nor have I yet received Alec's general commentary. The efforts to avoid the mention of the words "League of Nations" were I think rather childish, but of course, any kind of a meeting at that moment was welcome in wide circles as a means of making a demonstration. Second thought in Government Cabinets may however prevent the future reorganization being prejudiced by unilateral action taken in such circumstances. 6 - About Forstall's case I gather that my idea of a decision by the S.C. as a result of consultation by letter has not been retained and that it is felt necessary to await a meeting of the S.S.
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Diary 10: April - December 1941
Item 137
Transcription: Left page 5 - By telegram to-day Loveday raises the question of transferring the monthly statistical Bulletin to Princeton. This would involve the statistical Year Book being published there next year. I have long been considering the measures necessary in case the communications were cut and am inclined to think that my plan of waiting until force majeure made it impossible or undesirable to continue publication here, is practical and practicable. I may however agree to Loveday's proposal. 5 - Dr. Park to-day reports by telegram that the Health Office there can no longer effectively work and proposes either the closing down temporarily or transfer to Australia. The material coming from Singapore has become insignificant since the Pacific war broke out and it will probably be a long time before any substantial service can be resumed. I propose to let Park go to Australia on the same conditions as the men who have been sent to USA. He may there examine the conditions but I do not believe there is anything to be gained by attempting to continue the service from the last report dealt with Macao only. It is sad to see this office going out of action but we shall continue the circulation of epidemic statistics from here as far as possible. I do not like to leave that field exclusively to the German controlled office. 6 - If the Portuguese gate should be closed for correspondence and communications, I shall have to make a new examination of the situation here to see what is possible and useful. I hope that our policy of holding headquarters, which is and has always been regarded by me as mainly a political decision, will continue to be justified when I am even more completely cut off from our people abroad. I have also taken for granted - and I am sure rightly - that the intention of the S.C. and of yourselves was not merely that the person of the ASG and a small administrative staff should remain in Geneva, but that all practical activities useful to States Members should be carried on. 7 - I hope all this does not give the impression that I see our problems without a sense of proportion. Would you be kind enough to forward the enclosed letters to Jacklin. If you have time to glance at them, you might get some more information about some of our affairs. Perhaps you would also let Jacklin forward the letter to Loveday. With kindest regards and best wishes for 1942, Yours sincerely. Right page Dear Arthur, 17-12-41 I have been thinking about you during the last ten days since the new war developments. It is perhaps too soon yet to see how these will affect your work, but I can well imagine that there will be intense developments of the war effort which may divert or temporarily slacken the interest in the post-war problems. I hope not but am inclined to think that as the war has become very real and as the opening round was not all that might have been desired, we may see a little impatience with people trying to look beyond the immediate problems. It would be very desirable that while the national effort is developed and contemplated, that the real objective of war - which is peace - should not be ignored and its problems entirely left aside. 2 - We have come to the end of another year and our organization is still healthy and active, although I am feeling more and more the effects of the heavy economies imposed on us which, as we now have no elasticity, prevent much to be desired developments. The dispersal of the staff between Princeton, Washington and London has added to difficulties on one side, but give me a good deal of gratification as a counter balance to the policy of steadfastly holding the seat of the League. I was rather moved the other day to hear of three prominent men who had collaborated in Loveday's work and who are still in occupied countries having separately expressed opinions showing how much hope they attach to the future for the Organization and to its having maintained a bridgehead in Europe. Others, not so far away who a year ago were hopeless or indifferent, have lately formally expressed somewhat similar opinions. 3 - We have gained a year which often looked problematical, but there is still much water to flow under the bridge. We are again having our periodically recurring anticipation of developments which may affect our work and our situation through the question of communications. If that happened, we shall be facing a whole series of problems and most of them it is impossible to foresee and provide against. They are inherent in the policy of not abandoning the post; if that were to occur, there would be a reflection in different degrees of these problems with our colleagues abroad. I would have the greatest confidence that such circumstances would not of course in the slightest degree affect the essential loyalty to the Organization. At any rate, Loveday and yourself would help to maintain the morale of the waverers if any.
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World War I scrapbook and letter of Tilly Hill
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Transcription: 1914 - 1918 The Moan and Song of The Great War + The Greater WAR 1939 - 1945 1914 1918
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Transcription: Left page of the scrapbook THE EMPIRE'S FAREWELL TO LORD ROBERTS. handwritten Lord Riberts died in France, Where he had gone to inspect the Troops. Nov 1914 ________________________________ Right page of the scrapbook Gordon's Motto. THE VOICE OF THE MIGHTY DEAD.
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Description: Correspondance || Lettre autographe à l'encre, sur papier vergé blanc. - Caroline Carvalho : créatrice du rôle de Juliette à Paris (27 avril 1867), Adelina Patti, à Londres, la même année, en italien. - Saxe : Marie Sasse (ou Sax, Saxe, Sass), chanteuse d'origine belge, a tenu à l'Opéra beaucoup de premiers grands rôles : Elisabeth dans Tannhäuser, l'Africaine, Elisabeth dans Don Carlos ... || || Lettre autographe à l'encre, sur papier vergé blanc. - Caroline Carvalho : créatrice du rôle de Juliette à Paris (27 avril 1867), Adelina Patti, à Londres, la même année, en italien. - Saxe : Marie Sasse (ou Sax, Saxe, Sass), chanteuse d'origine belge, a tenu à l'Opéra beaucoup de premiers grands rôles : Elisabeth dans Tannhäuser, l'Africaine, Elisabeth dans Don Carlos ... || Correspondance
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