Transcription: Left page   November 17, 1941. Michael Mac White, Minister to the Quirinal, has been in Geneva for a few days with his wife. The food situation is getting really bad in  Rome and Michael says you can see hunger in the faces in the streets. They had not minded much for a few months the scarcity (they live in the best hotel), but it was beginning to affect them and I think they really came, not only for a breath of free air, but in order to absorb some calories and vitamins. Michael was full of gossip and good stories, as usual. His political outlook coincides with mine. The same applies to O'Donovan who has been appointed as Chargé at Lisbon. T.J. Kiernan has just arrived as Minister to the Holy See, with his wife and four children aged up to 17; they had 20 lbs of luggage each, having come by air from the Shannon where the British aeroplane apparently refuels and can pick up a few official passengers. Kiernan expected to buy all that was needed for the family in the way of clothes, etc. on arrival. It seems almost as though he had been  grossly misled by Headquarters, or that they themselves  are grossly ignorant of the situation. Mac also says that they sold their furniture before leaving Dublin; another foolish thing. He added that Joe Walshe had suggested that Kiernan should not have any interviews with O'Donovan just returned to Dublin from being Chargé at the Vatican! It seems incredible, but it could quite well be so. Mac of course, like a great many people abroad, has rather an edge against Joe; he says he does not really want reports and anything he receives which is contrary to his pet theories is promtly turned down. Mac White telegraphed about a year ago a report concerning alleged danger to the Vatican. He had learned that similar messages were going from half a dozen at least neutral Ministers in Rome. He got back a short reply just saying that that was quite ridiculous and since then has sent no more reports. I asked him if he had talked very openly with Frank Cremins when he met him in Berne and he said he had not as Cremins did not seem to invite it. I remarked on Frank's excess of prudence; he seemed to carry his instructions in certain matters into the inner recesses of his mind and Mac remarked that that was exactly the kind of representative Joe liked abroad.  Right page   Mac says that Bewley, formerly Irish Minister in Rome and Berlin visits Rome occasionally but he believes his spiritual home is North; he says bluntly that Italian circles suspect he is there to spy on them in German interest. Ostensibly he represents a Swedish news agency and when an inquiry was made of a Swedish woman, she said that there was an agency of this name but that the pay-master had a club-foot, all of which may be very libellous. Mac says that the Italian authorities had been counting on receiving wheat from the Ukraine this autumn; their share of the supplies taken from Denmark and Holland and France had long ago been exhausted; an occasional pound of tea or coffee might still be found on the black market costing anything from £5 tot £8 Pounds per lb. The two most unpopular men in Italy were Mussolini and Ciano. The former had now created a special body guard apparently distrusting the regular fascisti. Corruption was rife in high circles and in the Party. The Germans were disliked by the vast majority of the people but the latter were powerless; the Foreign Ministry alone did not have its strong infiltration of German officials. Germany had ceased to send raw materials partly because she could no longer obtain return cargoes and the goods train service with Germany was vastly reduced. People were universally sick of the war and might easily collapse if not sustained by the German strength. There was no element that could create a revolution, except perhaps in the industrial north, and even there no leadership dared show its head. As to the Vatican, Mac says the Vatican circles are almost without exception anti-nazi; he thinks the Pope is infinitely more timid than his predecessor would have been in the circumstances. They are now acting with the greatest prudence and caution, but there is no question as to their general sentiment. I asked about the Irish priests in Rome and was told that there were six Irish all Heads of different orders; of these five were definitely anti-German. The sixth, from Derry was more influenced by anti- English feeling and it was added that this same gentleman was hardly an ornament for the high post he held, in the cultural way at any rate.

Transcription: 264 (verso)   St Lazare - Je vais donner à la copie une assez longue introduction du 4me acte d'Ulysse que je refais sur le mouvement 2/4, avec  Partition musicale   tout l'orchestre --- Comme c'est le principal rhythme et le plus chaud du mouvement  mot raturé  de ce morceau, je pense qu'on peut l'annoncer pour ouvrir  l'acte avant le Solo du Coryphée - Trouvez vous ? -- J'ai mis en train l'orchestration de mon  Ô Salutaris pour mlle Dolby ; je lui donne des minutes quand je peux en attraper ; elles ne sont pas longues --- --- à demain donc, à midi ½, et mille amitiés de votre Charles Gounod  265 (page 3)   Just a word to say that Charles is content avec Lockey --- 2h. Oui, très content, chère Pauline de recevoir à l'instant votre chère bien aimée lettre. Merci, merci, merci ; je vous rends toute l'affection que vous me donnez. Nous allons sortir ---- Je suis ravi de Lockey : c'est d'une pureté et d'une bonté délicieuse : il y a la voix d'un bleu aussi doux que ses yeux - Soyez donc contente -- Chorley m'a fait dire à Nullah, sa femme, et Lockey des fragmens de Sapho dont ils ont été tous très emus ---- Chorley me tire par la tête le cœur et les pieds Adieu, adieu - - - - ---- aïe, aïe... pourquoi pas « Bonjour... ? » Pauline. Votre Charles vu et      | .H. J. C. corrigé  | 267  Partie en anglais   Seulement trois mots, chère Pauline : je viens d'écrire une assez longue lettre à M'man, et nous allons sortir --- Merci à vous pour tout le bien qui m'est venu hier - J'espère qu'on a été content de mes morceaux, et je vous prie de prendre comme vôtre ce succès que je vous dois ----- je vous donnerai des détails à mon retour : ce

Transcription: 264 (verso)   St Lazare - Je vais donner à la copie une assez longue introduction du 4me acte d'Ulysse que je refais sur le mouvement 2/4, avec  Partition musicale   tout l'orchestre --- Comme c'est le principal rhythme et le plus chaud du mouvement  mot raturé  de ce morceau, je pense qu'on peut l'annoncer pour ouvrir  l'acte avant le Solo du Coryphée - Trouvez vous ? -- J'ai mis en train l'orchestration de mon  Ô Salutaris pour mlle Dolby ; je lui donne des minutes quand je peux en attraper ; elles ne sont pas longues --- --- à demain donc, à midi ½, et mille amitiés de votre Charles Gounod  265 (page 3)   Just a word to say that Charles is content avec Lockey --- 2h. Oui, très content, chère Pauline de recevoir à l'instant votre chère bien aimée lettre. Merci, merci, merci ; je vous rends toute l'affection que vous me donnez. Nous allons sortir ---- Je suis ravi de Lockey : c'est d'une pureté et d'une bonté délicieuse : il y a la voix d'un bleu aussi doux que ses yeux - Soyez donc contente -- Chorley m'a fait dire à Nullah, sa femme, et Lockey des fragmens de Sapho dont ils ont été tous très emus ---- Chorley me tire par la tête le cœur et les pieds Adieu, adieu - - - - ---- aïe, aïe... pourquoi pas « Bonjour... ? » Pauline. Votre Charles vu et      | .H. J. C. corrigé  |

Transcription: Left page   November 1st 1941 Some little time ago I appear to have been able, through my friendship with President Santos of Colombia, in obtaining precious visas for an Austrian named Ernst Grünwald and his wife who are in a civilian camp in Switzerland; he is a man of 43 apparently tainted with some semitic blood and thereby a victim of the new civilization promised to Europe. He is a tall good-looking fellow and I should say of excellent character and qualifications in his trade as a textile expert. Now he comes back to me asking if I could not do the same thing for his father and mother and his father and mother-in- law living in wretchedness material and spiritual misery in Vienna. He says he gets the most imploring letters full of bitter tears from them and he has a most pathetic confidence that a word from me will obtain freedom for them. When I eventually consented to support his appeal to Colombia (necessarily in a completely personal way) the poor devil broke down with tears and sobs of gratitude and perhaps vain hopes, kissing my hand unexpectedly. Personal contact of this kind with some of the misery spread through Europe by nazi persecution, promise of that new civilization under the master race, inclines one to lose the balance of judgement and perspective on the problem of the future.  Right page   Vansittart "Black Record" recently came into my hands. It is a fierce pamphlet in which Germany is indited in the role of the butcher bird of Europe. It is so single-mindedly, so violently crusading against the majority of the German people of whom he regards nazism merely as the latest manifestation of a long history that it seems a strange product for the former diplomatic Chief in Great Britain. There were many things in it with which I agreed, but it seemed nearly too much. The future of Europe, alas, cannot be considered without taking a great deal of it into account. His view on the German "mädchenbund" and the quotation of one of their marching songs which begins "Christ was but a jewish swine, etc. etc." and his remarks on the feminine prussian ferocity (? feminine ferocity), reminded me of that charming little blonde who became Greiser's second wife when he had discarded the wife and family belonging to his earlier social station. He was a great chasseur and invited me to accompany him shooting buck in the Danzig forest. Boettcher, that timber-headed lout came also and our three wives. It was a pleasant excursion in the autumn woods and eventually a buck crossing a glade  Note   to be finished by hand please Melle  ... could not bring herself to type the rest - the living disembowelled animal the vomiting Böttcher, the jeering blonde

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