Transcription: I am advocating ^that^ everybody to ^shall^ try to find distraction, in cards  or games  or hobby and to avoid too many talking parties.  Cannot help noting that even in unexpected quarters I am a little helpful and reassuring.   Probably due in great measure that I have no burden of anxiety about the family. Saturday 9/9/39 Letter from Elsie (& one from Ann) arrived dated 1/9/39 - the day before war declared Dorothy Mary had declared she would not go to Trinity if war was declared but take up some kind of work.    All much concerned that Bully should be painlessly killed if I have to leave Geneva The newspapers begin to arrive - "Times" of 4th- & 5th- today.   This will help to check propaganda.   "Irish Times" of Saturday 1st- said "neutrality is Irelands only possible policy" -  Viz entreaty . Devolera in the Dail on 1st announced  We  wd- remain neutral as long as possible - ^this^ echoing his February declaration. "as long as a part of Ireland is subject to force "by a stronger nation it is only natural that the "people should look to their own country first" That sounds like an invitation to London.

Transcription: Friday  8th Sept I939 German propaganda swept Geneva today with the theory that for the British and French this was not a real war but une guerre semblable; that the French attack on the Seigfried Line was a pretence; that they and the British were dropping tracts but not bombing the bridges of the Rhine; that when Poland was crushed and Germany offered another fait accompli  and offered peace they would accept it.   I consider it fantastic but it is part of the price paid for "Munich".that it should receive so much credence.   Little things like the announcement tonight of the killing off of the animals in the London Zoo shd be significant to anyone not knowing something of the feeling in Britain.  And Churchill is now in the War Cabinetwith Eden as Dominions Secretary.    Lessing, corr of the Berne "Bund", was one of those whp presented me with this story.  In addition he put forward the strategical reasons for forcing Italy immediately to take sides, for or against. With these I confess I am in full agreement, and have been from the first news of her intended neutrality, with some reserve owing to the complete absence of special information. But I took good care to say not a word that could be quoted.   There can be little confidence in talking to people not absolutely sure in Geneva these days.   Espionage is widespread . Called young Celinski to my office today to warn him not to talk too  much.   He had said to a Rumanian friend and it had quickly passed round that they had been promised 1000 aeroplanes by Britain and generally being depressed and defeatist (almost). He is highly strung  and naturally very much affected but is intelligent and seemed grateful.     How much would they not give today for to have the sturdy Czech army at their flank!   And to recall that unctuous wretch Komarnicki mouthing Nazi propaganda about the artificial state, and  Benes' errors in depending on France and blatant exultation when their neighbour was torn to pieces  and loud-mouthed certainty when one mildly inquired when Poland's turn would come.   All this is in many people's and on some tongues.   But Beck and his satellites were not the Polish people.  And it a ll matters little today in face of consequences. Query: to find out if Lessing is only in Swiss S.S. f !!  Later: He is said to be O.K.

Transcription: Left page   "L'Europe Nouvelle"  19/8/39   "Le Mystère Burckhardt" - leader. "M. Lester, un Irlandais distingué, ayant du quitter le poste du haut commissaire pour avoir defendu avec courage les droits constitutionnels de la population Dantzicoise, guarantit par "la SdN et violés par le Senat national-socialiste, M. Burckhardt avait été choisi precisement à cause de ses opinions realistes et de ses bonnes relations avec les nazis, notamment le Fuhrer lui-même. Le fait est que sous le règne du professor balois genevois le nazification de la Ville Libre, la cruelle extermination de la Opposition et des Juifs, a été achevée radicalement."  Right page   An article of which an extract is made has just reached me in circulation.  It is of course unfair to Burckhardt ("CK-DT" the elite family). But as it is mainly a demand for an explanation of his activities this summer, & especially of his visit to Hitler on August 11, I also record the uneasiness I felt & expressed since June. He has left us very much in the dark & I have been somewhat alarmed at times as to political the risks he was taking. Rather cruel, but not far wrong, writer refers to him as vain & ambitious. He has taken risks on this a/c, I think. Gorgé, yesterday, asked about him & seemed to be aware that B. wanted & advised he shd remain when in January some of us tried to get him withdrawn from Danzig.   He was given three hours to be out of Dg., & left amid insulting cries of a Nazi gang. On the previous evening Forster had assured him that according to his talk with Hitler there wd be no changes in Danzig!!! The war began next morning.

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