Transcription: Cher Konsieur Lester, En lisant que la France aussi a quitté la Société des Nations et espérant que l'ouragan s'éloigne de plus en plus de nos frontières, mes pensées se tournent denouveau vers Genève et je me demande combien de mes anciens collègues se trouvent-ils bien encore sous votre commendement.  Nous avons passé des jours bien angoissés. A Budapest aussi on a introduit l'obscurcissement, mais depuis hier les rues sont redevenues plus  claires et la Hongrie espère pouvoir rester aussi loin que possible des tourmentes violentes, qui font trembler le monde entier. Souvent on nous reproche,  pourquoi notre politique est-elle si passive dans une certaine direction. A ces reproches nous ne faisons que sourir, car si par exemple un pays tel que la Yougoslavie a succombé en quelques jours, pays qui depuis vingt ans a pu se préparer à cette guerre et dont l'armée bien équipée avait une valeur réelle, toute autre politique du Gouvernement Hongrois n'aurait- elle pas mené le pays vers la ruine certaine? Le traité de Trianon nous a pris toutes nos frontières stratégiques naturelles - une partie nous est revenue ces mois derniers - et ceux qui ont dépécé l'ancienne Monarchie ont bien préparé - certes sans le vouloir - le chemin pour les évenements actuels. Une chose nous étonne toujours: comment se fait-il, que dans certains milieux on soit si peu orientés de ce qui se passe dans les pays de l'Europe centrale et dans les Balkans et que font les diplo-

Transcription: will now be impossible in view of the study you are proposing. 6- I do not think this study is particulary opportune. You know, of course, that a vast study on the subject was undertaken in connection with the Danubian studies and that Prof. Wagner of Basel is getting the final document together. This should be completed shortly and will cover about the same ground as the note you sent me. I had of course not overlooked this subject; but it seemed to me wise not to start on it until this other work was completed. 7- As I said, it does not very much matter, as one can scarcely expect, in the light of experience, that anything else of value would have been produced. But it is rather difficult for me to plan my work if these decisions are taken without prior reference to me as Director of the Section. 8- I was a little worried too, as you had raised the question of economy - and incidentally sacrifice - in a previous letter. I am assuming, therefo re, that the extra expenditure incurred on this account will not fall upon my budget, nor, of course, on the Rockefeller grant. There is, incidentally, a particular history which would make the latter solution peculiarly inappropriate, quite apart from the question of waste. 9- It so happens that I had asked this other  ... person, before leaving Geneva, to prepare a note for me on which he might have done something quite useful as it fell within his competence and experience. The subject was reconstruction schemes to consider whether there were any defects in these schemes which might be avoided in the future. This note, as I explained at the time, was to be concerned only with technical financial issues and not with the economic implications of the schemes which constitute the subject of a separate note. I asked him about this when he was here and learnt that he had never put pen to paper. I cannot discover what, if anything, he did during the period between the time I left and the time his salary ceased. Certainly he did absolutely nothing which would justify restoring him to my budget, and this particular question, to which I attach a good deal of importance, has not been dealt with. I suppose in the end I shall have to deal with it myself and am not suggesting that he should be switched from whatever you want him to do to this or any other subject. 10- I am afraid this is rather an ungracious letter and suspect that the difficulties must have arisen from the fact that you are not fully informed of what I am doing. I shall meet this difficulty. Yours ever,  signed   S.L. P.S. Just had long & helpful talks with conference people fr. various centres.   ...  ...

Transcription: P1/10 (40) SOCIETE DES NATIONS LEAGUE OF NATIONS Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. No. 78 October 30th, 1941. My dear Jack, I think I had better reply to your letter of the 8th, No. 41 both officially and unofficially and to your letter of the 10th, No. 42 unofficially. I will begin with the latter. 2- I was a little worried when I heard you had switched Lukac on to the work you mentioned in a recent letter - I am writing from the Labour Conference and have not all the correspondence with me - as I had had other work for him in mind which was not quite the same and it is rather difficult for me to organise my work if I do not know which members of my staff are going to be available. However, I did not mention it at the moment as I did not think it would really make much practical difference; but I see now, from your letter of the 8th, that you are putting Charron on to a certain work which I suppose will take all his time and prevent him doing anything for me. 3- As regards Lukac, it does not matter because he just cannot draft at all. You ask me, in the last paragraph of your No. 42, what I propose to do with his study. At this stage nothing. He did a first draft which was Hamlet without the ghost and I have now received the ghost. But the two did not make a whole and I shall have to have them completely reshaped. I say this with some regret as I have a very high opinion of Lukac. He is an excellent contact man, a good administrator, very keen on his work, completely loyal and, for the future, an absolutely indispensable servant, but it just so happens that he is not much good for the sort of work which arises to be done now. 4- My point in having these drafts prepared is to use them as and when occasion arises. Occasion is not likely to arise on this particular subject for a long time. There is no hurry; but one must be prepared to throw them in when the occasion does arise. I had one, for instance, fortunately, ready on the Relief question a copy of which I sent to the Wheat Conference which has now invited me to come and expound my views. This is the real object of such work. 5-Perhaps it does not matter about the other man also  .... You mention his eight-page study. This, so far as I am concerned, is his total output of work since July 1940. It seems to me wholly contemptible. The eight pages are themselves worthless and, as a result of over a year's work, or even work over the four or five months since I wrote to him, it is, I think, a scandalous performance. I had had it in mind, however, to write and ask him to make a first draft of certain sections of next year's edition of the Survey and was only waiting for the plan of the Survey to be completed before doing this. I suppose that this Sean Lester, Esq., Le Pelouse, Geneva, Switzerland.

Transcription: in pencil, at top:  P1/8 (17)    Newsclipping reads:  LESTER RUNS LEAGUE By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Sept. 3.—Sean Lester, Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations, today took charge of the League as temporary successor to resigned Secretary General Joseph Avenol.

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