Transcription: Dated 23/6   Read 25/6.  Probably written before incident reported Please convey the following personal message from A. Cadogan to Mr. Lester: "We have been in touch withHAMBRO and JACKLIN and are ling to agree to a preliminary meeting of Supervisory Commission Montreal at the end of next month to consider draft budget before oving) to States Jacklin will attend. Constitutionally you should also attend this meeting and will naturally wish to do so. We are however strongly ressed by serious risk that if you leave Geneva now for United tes or Canada you may have difficulty in returning and that it Id not be easy to provide satisfactorily for administration of retariat in your absence. As MAKINS told you in his message of April last we continue attach importance on grounds of policy to preserve League ructure and maintenance of Geneva headquarters has much  gnificance in this respect. Moreover all being done at Geneva rticularly Health work is of considerable value. We feel erefore that risk inherent in your departure from Geneva at esent is too great and we hope you will be willing to persevere in ther thankless task you have so successfully performed in fficult circumstances last 12 months. If preliminary meeting of Commission is held suggest you legate your authority to one of League's officials present. mission will of course remain in closest possible communication you.

Transcription: Left page   LESTER to MAKINS Personal. Thanks for your telegram of 27th Stop I leave it to you to prevent mischief making if it exists Stop Was temporarily upset but so far as I am concerned affair is now closed Stop Best to you./. June 30, 1941  Right page   30/6/41 From Mr. LESTER to Sir Alexander CADOGAN Thank you for your personal message of 23rd June. I had been hoping it would be possible for me to attend Supervisory meeting for various reasons includin necessity for sharing in discussion on decisions for execution of which I shall have the difficulties and responsibility Stop Also for much needed contact with Commission on general situation prospects and objectives Stop I am afraid therefore no one can replace me satisfactorily Stop But quite prepared accept your estimate as to doubt of return and will ask Jacklin act for me in consultation Stop Impossible divorce financial proposals from political results and venture to suggest much may depend on interpretation given at meeting to your policy of preserving League structure and Geneva headquarters Stop Hope Chairman Supervisory Committee understands position especially as most doubtful if we can count later on any facilities for transfer of headquarters or staff such as given diplomatic missions Stop Without minimising value maintaining technical work in Europe I regard decision to hold on as having essentially moral and political basis Stop If prospects for my return improve please let me know as a short visit to London would be invaluable to me. Kindest regards./.

Transcription: No. 13.    Geneva 29 May 1941 Dear Alec, A bunch of letters has come from you this morning which will be acknowledged separately. 2 - On the question of covering Demik, I am very glad you have gone to the trouble of seeing B. I have not yet heard from him. Roger who at first inclined to agree to cover, has, as you know, some weeks ago, reached a different conclusion. Since writing have received a B. telegram expressing  conviction as to transfer. The S.D. question is not touched upon. 3 - I did have some hope that Keys having got out would both find a personal balance and be more helpful on general questions. I could not on this particular thing look to him for much and indeed I am afraid I am beginning to take a negative view of most of his activities. It has been rather disturbing to find how easily he forgets important questions and how easily and unnecessarily and annoyingly upset he becomes. For example, that question of your first grant: your telegram came here (speaking without the papers) some time in December, the question went to him and he himself drafted the reply as to the conditions of acceptance; yet, two months later when he saw the R. people near you, he wrote that he had learned of this for the first time and had never been consulted by anybody. Then on the wireless business he started Northerner on an entirely wrong footing by denying the information we had sent to him, information which had been in his own hands a year ago (concerning denouncement) There has been another small imbroglio since his arrival at London again due simply to muddle-headedness on matters which are hundred per cent within his own province. There have been other things and they I have, I am afraid, been speaking in terms of crass stupidity. On the tope of all this I get a copy of a note he sent to Cecil and Carl which made me so furiously angry that I began to think the nerve strain was telling too much on myself. He has a sensitiveness also and an "orgueil" which I have always done my best to meet, but it is somewhat hard that I should have to tolerate a great deal, especially in view of his constantly unfortunate share in the difficult times of last Summer. When it had reached the stage of the 1st of September, on the top of other things, I found he had committed himself, quite illegally, to a gratuity of 90,000, plus, quite indefinitely, sixty francs a day, plus two private secretaries, free residence and offices from which the campaign against the Institution could be more effectively and confidently directed. I got a little bit of cooperation some time in August, but not as a result of his perspicacity but because

Transcription: Left page   -2- I have reason to believe, he got an order. This is old history and was completely overlooked and infinite patience exercised; yet, now again I am unwillingly uncomfortable and uncertain about his general influence in his present place. It does me good to get this off my chest; so please put up with it and be sure I shall do everything I can and be most gratified if it can succeed in keeping things going smoothly. 4 - I am going to take the precaution of sending you in the next day or two in a separate envelope, a copy of the conditions drawn up by himself as to his departure. Please just hold them for reference. P.S.   Did J. get on as well as usual with H. while he was there? One or two signs which reached me from him made me a little bit uneasy, although there was absolutely no direct reference.  Right page   P1/10 (13) ETE DES NATIONS LEAGUE OF NATIONS Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. No. 41. June 19th, 1941. PERSONAL My dear Jack, Yours No. 13.    I am full of sympathy for you and have seen enough at first hand to realise how unfortunately true what you say is. It was this first-hand experience at close quarters which I had never really had before that made me understand that the trouble was very largely physical and, I fear, quite incurable.  But there is also a certain pathological history resulting from the last war which he himself has explained to me. These phenomena are, of course, likely to become more dangerous when he is not working in a big administrative machine with a whole hierarchy of officials to present or substantiate the facts I wonder if you have thought about this. He lost some time ago the secretary who had acquired a long historical knowledge of these facts and you can scarcely expect any junior person coming in to act as an adequate brake either on fact or emotion, though I must say I was much impressed on occasion by the common-sense brake which was applied by the girl he now has. My inclination would be to consider whether you could not reinforce his equipment by putting some old stager at his disposal. I do not, of course, know if anyone is available nor how far Mlle. Rohde could fill this bill. What about Miss MacDonald of Personnel? She has a good Scottish mind and personality. In reply to your postscript, I thought things went off surprisingly well. Of course both went throught the ceiling on occasions, but they were separate occasions and the other seemed most sympathetic in rubbing the victim's head.

Description: Hierarchie: Großherzogliches Familienarchiv (Eigentum des Hauses Baden) und Markgräfliches/Großherzogliches Familienarchiv: Nachträge >> Einzelne Angehörige des Hauses Baden >> [13 A] Luise Großherzogin von Baden (1838-1923) >> Familie, Hof, Regierung >> Soziales, Wohltätigkeit >> Badischer Frauenverein >> Geschäftsberichte >> Berichtserien >> Dr. Sophie Sautier [Präsidentin von Abteilung V]

Description: Hierarchie: Großherzogliches Familienarchiv (Eigentum des Hauses Baden) und Markgräfliches/Großherzogliches Familienarchiv: Nachträge >> Einzelne Angehörige des Hauses Baden >> [13 A] Luise Großherzogin von Baden (1838-1923) >> Familie, Hof, Regierung >> Soziales, Wohltätigkeit >> Badischer Frauenverein >> Geschäftsberichte >> Berichtserien >> Dr. Sophie Sautier [Präsidentin von Abteilung V]

Description: Marriage certificate Autograph album || Family brought along just a marriage certificate and an album and drawings.

Description: Hierarchie: Großherzogliches Familienarchiv (Eigentum des Hauses Baden) und Markgräfliches/Großherzogliches Familienarchiv: Nachträge >> Einzelne Angehörige des Hauses Baden >> [13 A] Luise Großherzogin von Baden (1838-1923) >> Familie, Hof, Regierung >> Erziehung, Schulen >> Victoria-Schule und -Pensionat >> Berichtserien >> Emilie Göler von Ravensburg [?-?, Oberin des Viktoria-Pensionats Karlsruhe und der Filiale Baden-Baden 1917-1920/1923]

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