Transcription: Sunday 10th Sept 39 Had Walters, Sweetser, and Wrong to dinner bridge last night.   A friend of W's. called having come from Berlin(he is Argentinian) in a car marked "D" for Deutschland and the Swiss authorities asked him to leave it in Zurich to avoid incidents.  He had seen German cars some from Italy with their windows smashed.   As the Swiss broadcaster said last night Swiss opinion is unanimous as to the responsibility for the war.   Last time there was much division. Further petrol restrictions.  No Sunday driving allowed except for military, doctors, and Dip. Corps. No more dejeuners de Dimanche dans le campagne for the Genevese.    Streets were remarkably quiet without  cars and hosts of cyclists, sometimes eight abreast, had it all their own way. Went to Avenol's for lunch and felt like one of Bateman's cartoons (as I wrote to Elsie) so selfconsciousl prominent.   We wont use our cars for ordinary jaunts, of course.    With Avenol on the lake, in his luxurious motorboat- he thought the restriction did not apply in  any case to motorboats.   Called at Phelan's for tea.  They talked yachtman's "shop". Podesta Costa took leave of us yesterday.   Have just been listening to a talk on Poland, & its struggle for freedom, from London    ("As far away as  Poland is").     It is so like our own.  No Irishman can have other than sympathy and admiration for the Poles.  But it must be confessed that post-warPoland developed, especially in recent years, a Chauvinism far from attractive.   I have already mentioned their disgusting attitude when CzechoSlovakia was on the torture rack.   They had not been cleverly treated by France but their claim to play the role of a Great Power their exercise of a raw type of Power Politics, their stupid support of Germany  when the latter was destroying the League and getting ready for the attempt to dominate Europe, the crude boasting of representatives like Komarnicki They wer lost them much sympathy and friendship.   They went along so confidently.  When they denounced the Minorities Treaty arrgts a few years ago, Imagining freedom from League restrictions  and fron French pressure and relying on their pact with Germany and the latter's need of them, they struck one of the first blows at their own future.  I am not sure that most of the blame does not fall on Beck personally.

Transcription: Left page   Manchester Guardian 2/9/39, delayed, in a leading article says: - This is a war we have striven desperately to avoid; we have made sacrifices of principle and prestige in order to conciliate the aggressor; we have come to the end.  No efforts of our diplomacy or of that of France or Italy, no appeal to the highest principles of human morality, whether from the Pope or from the heads of States, great and small, have prevailed to turn Herr Hitler aside. He has rejected all and, brushing aside any pretence at negotiation, has invaded a neighbour State without declaration of war.  Even in his own shameless record of insincerity and mendacity there has been nothing to compare with the process by which, within the space of a few short months, Poland was transformed from being a friend to be flattered into an enemy to be bullied and eaten up as were Austria and Czecho-Slovakia before her.  Britain and France have their guarantees to Poland, but even if they had not we could not stand aside. The fate of Poland to-day would be that of Holland, of Switzerland, of Belgium to-morrow, and of ourselves and France the day after.  It cannot go on.  At all costs we must make Hitler's amorality stands out nakedly.   Who, reading the German Notes, could believe that it is less than twelve months ago since Hitler described how he had won "lasting pacification" with Poland? We do not expect anything from one another.   We are two nations, and these nations will live and neither of them will be able to do away with the other.  I recognise all this, and we all must recognise that a people of 33,000,000 will always strive for an outlet to the sea.  A way for an understanding in this respect had to be found, and has been found.  And this way will be farther and farther extended. Certainly things become hard in this area.  The nationalities and small national groups frequently quarrel among themselves, but the main fact is the two State leaderships, and all reasonable and astute persons among the two peoples and countries possess this firm will and determination to improve relations. The Poles have never  Right page   12/9/39 A memo. passing through my hands on the position of Afghanistan, compares its present declaration of neutrality & that in 1914-18. In 1915 a German mission arrived & soon afterwards a pro-German party was set up, influenced by the fact that the Khalifa, as Sultan of Turkey, was on the German side. Habibullah, the Amir, had a difficult time but eventually he agreed to a mission proceeding to Berlin to discuss the terms on which Afghanistan wd- join the Central Powers. Of this Afghan mission of 6 Afghans writes our Indian colleague, four were actually British Secret Service men with the result that in various ways its departure was again & again delayed. Von Hentig, the German agent, eventually returned to Berlin in disgust. In Feb. 1919 Habibullah was murdred & one of his successors engaged in War with

Transcription: Left page    Photo 1   Podesta Costa Walters Lester Fabela (Mexico) at luncheon to Nogueira.  Photo 2   Uraguayan Minister, & Nogueira - in my office.  Right page   13/9/39 In our semi-evacuated house I found today these verses which may some day interest our Patricia : Morning Birds. ONE morning awakened I to hear, The chirping songs of birds so near, That I imagined them to be In some wonderful garden tree. There was the black-bird, the sparrow and the tit, All singing;and when their soul of song is lit By the rising sun;for me they change: In marvelous plumage, they do range The brown branches of blooming trees, Gently swayed by the morning breeze. . . .  ....Thus do I think of the cheery tit, when the morning sky of dawn is lit. P.E.Lester. 24,March, 1939. Geneva.

Transcription: Left page   India, but was defeated in a few months. Better relations followed a treaty which recognised Af's independence & the young Amir & his wife tried to modernise & reform their country. A campaign by the priesthood led him to show his orthodoxy, however, by having a member of a Reformist sect executed. The latter was burned up to the waist & then stoned to death "in accordance with Afghan law." This did not save Amanulla, however. A decision to unveil the woman was fatal to him. A bandit water carrier, one Baccha-i-Saqqau  Habibullah Kalakani  led a successful rebellion in 1929 & incidentally the RAF had to rescue 20 British & Indian women by air. Amanulla fled to Italy where he still lives but shortly afterwards the Water carrier was deposed & executed by Nadir  Right page   then, a general, who reigned for four years till he, in turn, was assassinated at a football match. His eldest son; King Zahir, continues his father's policy which had given 4 years peace to the Asiatic Switzerland. "But", adds friend Waheed, "no attempt has been made to proceed as rapidly in the direction of social reform as Amanulla did." The object of this picturesque historical cameo was to show the difference between 1914-18 & 1939-? , Better relations with G.B. ; no religious issue etc. There is a Soviet frontier but Iraq has declared war on Germany & Iran is friendly.

Description: Ratne bojne dopisnice (Feldpost) bile su najfunkcionalnije sredstvo komuniciranja vojnika sa porodicom tokom Prvog svjetskog rata. Većinom su bile cenzurisane i na njima se nalazio pečat vojne cenzure, regimentalni pečat i pečat vojne pošte. Na velikom broju dopisnica nalazila su se sva tri pečata, međutim, nerijetko se nalazio samo jedan ili dva. Poznato je da su vojnici bili strogo kažnjavani ukoliko su svjesno pisali bilo šta što otkriva vojne tajne. Pisati su mogli samo vojnici. Sve što bi napisali davalo bi se vojnom cenzoru da to pregleda i tek kad on odobri moglo se poslati porodici. Čitajući pisma, može se uvidjeti da su ona poprilično štura, te da su dobro pazili o svemu šta je napisano, upravo iz razloga da bi izbjegli probleme sa nadređenim. Feldpost sistem Austro-ugarske Monarhije, omogućavao je vojnicima da komuniciraju sa svojim najbližima. Sačuvane razglednice i pisma pružaju lični pogled na to kako su pojedini vojnici doživljavali sukobe. || Devet bojnih dopisnica (Feldpost)

Description: Este un volum de jurnal din cele trei deţinute de Biblioteca Judeţeană Octavian Goga Cluj. || Dumitru Nistor, ţăran din satul Năsăud s-a născut în 1893. Visând din copilărie să călătorească şi să vadă ţări străine, în 1912, când vine vremea “număraşului” (recrutării) el cere să fie primit nu în miliţia ardeleană, unde erau recrutaţi de obicei românii, ci în marina austro-ungară. Terminând şcoala de marină, după o călătorie la Viena, este îmbarcat ca Geschützvormeister (“primul îndreptător de tun”) pe vasul SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth, cu destinaţia Asia. Prins de război în Marea Chinei, crucişătorul Kaiserin Elisabeth participă la câteva bătălii navale, pentru ca în 2 noiembrie 1914 să se hotărască scufundarea lui. Echipajul pierde şi lupta terestră, este luat prizonier de japonezi şi transportat în arhipelagul nipon. Timp de zece luni, ţăranul-marinar din Năsăud va fi prizonier într-o mănăstirea buddhistă din Himeji, iar apoi mutat într-un lagăr, construit special pentru prizonierii germani şi austrieci, la Aonogahara, nu departe de Kobe, unde va rămâne până la sfârşitul anului 1919.

Description: Potrošačka kartica sadrži podatke o osobama koje su se prijavljivale radi raspodjele živežnih namirnica u Zagrebu tijekom Drugog svjetskog rata. Sadrži podatke o podnosiocu prijave (ime i prezime, adresa) te osobama koje se nalaze u kućanstvu, njihova imena, godine rođenja, odnos prema podnosiocu prijave, zanimanje i mjesto rada.

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