Transcription: 1st. June.   Charles Bewley, Ir. Minister in Berlin, spent Whit week-end with us. Son of a Quaker doctor and a Quakeress (Pim) B. is a Catholic convert & more zealous, naturally, than a born Catholic. A barrister, he was appointed to the Holy See in 1929; & in 1933 to Berlin. (About '21 or '22 he was an unrecognized agent of the Movement in Berlin). Perhaps it was Winchester & Oxford, but he is violently anti-English: I feel always that he is more anti-English than pro-Irish. Also anti-League and even condemns Devalera for carrying out Ireland's obligations under the Covenant in the Abyssinia dispute. I have little or nothing in  common with him & he is a prig - I prefer the pleasant odour of Bewley's (roasted) coffee-shop in Westmoreland St.   Brought him to Countess von Keyserlingk's schloss. Had the Greisers, von Hagens, Professor Fuchs & a few others to dinner: we both rode with Greiser in the woods on Monday morning.

Transcription: Like other people I receive many queer things out of the United States, but a letter from the Shoe Club, Inc. of New York which awaited me on my return from Geneva was one of the more extraordinary The Shoe Club bespeaks my "kind office to help us in adding to our collection of worn shoes of notables all over the world".   "Having finished with a collection of famous  statesmen and personages in all walks of life in  the United States of America, we are now seeking  to add to our collection the worn shoes of similar  personages in other countries.   "The Shoe Club feels that a collection of shoes  that have been worn by men of renown will be an  inspiration to the younger members of the industry  not only in craftmanship but to show them that  their livelihood is of a service to mankind of  which they can be proud.   "May we therefore bespeak your gracbusness in  sending a pair of your old shoes and also fill  out the enclosed autograph?"   The incredulous giggles with which this request has been received by my daughters is a sufficient European commentary on one of the American idiosyncrasies, but Georg, hearing of it, promptly offered to get rid of one of the many pairs of shoes which he thinks I should not be wearing.

Transcription: Eden said to me he did not find that Council Meeting as bad as that of January. I can only suppose he meant as to his personal and national position in the backwash of the Hoare-Laval proposals.   Frank Cremins urged me strongly to stay abroad - i.e. in Danzig. No hope, he seemed to think, for me at home! Rather astonishing & discouraging: with my special experience I had hoped to be welcomed back into our own service. Until two weeks ago I had had never one word of appreciation or encouragement from headquarters, personal or official, for my ork in the Council, or for my work in Danzig. I wrote again to Joe Walshe asking for a direction from the Govnt as to accepting a renewed period here. Was semi-officially told "that the President would not stand in my way in accepting  ...  advantages." The Fresident himself was ill in Danzig Zurich & could not be consulted. He had, it is true, last July, urged me to stay on - "as a feather in our cap". Joe, for the first time for years, softened his semi-offl note by a purely personal one "congratulations on my success in Danzig". (See letters).   I'm much afraid he doesn't want me.

Transcription: Right page     Never have I seen Geneva in such disarray. No-one could speculate on the future; no-one could feel any certainty as to the European position even two months hence. The Italian actions, together with the flight of the "King of Kings" had presented a situation in which the League appeared to have been defeated. There are clearly in every country elements which think that sanctions should be raised as their object, they claim, was to prevent war and the war is now over. The matter was eventually adjourned until June 16th to enable the new French Government to take over and incidentally to give other Governments time to consider the position. No doubt the situation will have crystallised to some extent by that time. The question of changes in the Covenant immediately becomes a matter of urgent politics. It is difficult to see Italy simply resuming her place in the European concert after having swallowed a fellow member, and the matter being passed off with a few speeches of regret at the unfortunate disappearance of a State member of the League. It would seem to be more decent to wipe out the Articles 10 and 16, but if so the potential value of the League would very largely disappear and it would be doubtful if small States would continue in many cases to remain. The German desire to have the Convenant separated from the Treaty of Versailles will also be under discussion in the summer, and generally there seemed to be complete uncertainty as to the future.   Half jokingly I asked one or two friends to be  sure to telegraph to me any untoward event so that at the outpost I should not find myself the solitary and isolated representative of law in Europe!   I might say that Greiser's attitude to me in Geneva was of the most friendly. Again he sought a definite indication as to my wish to stay on, with the object, as he said, of assisting to that end.   The scandal of the Budget in England involving Jimmy Thomas was an invariable subject of conversation among English groups.  Left page     Lunched with Frank Walters a couple of times; Cummings & Roger MAKINS of the F.0.M. Gave a dinner to Greiser & co. & lunched with them. Dined with Phelan for our usual yarns and controversies. He's become a madly enthusiastic yachtsman.   Rajchmann came up after my reappointment "to congratulate Poland and Danzig". He says Beck is gratified that his prophecies about the collapse of the collective system were proving true.

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