Transcription: Old Count von Bernstorff's death is announced. For the past year he has been in a mental hospital. German Ambassador in U.S.A. until 1917, I first met him 10 years ago in the Prep. Comm. for  Disarmt- Confce.  Attractive, gentlemanly fellow, he settled in Geneva when nazis came into power. The Nazi policy weighed too heavily on his mind and the last time he & his wife lunched with us we noticed a distraction & a vagueness. They lived in Les Artichauts, where Wagner stayed one summer. The Azcarates lived there & Elsie had actually arranged to take it in 1937 when some legal difficulty arose from the bankruptcy of the owner. For the past year he had been in a "home". A German raider is reported in the South Atlantic & it is said to be the "Admiral Scheer", one of the famous pocket battleships. I remember once standing off in one & her launches, while nineteen guns were fired in salute. The Captain, at a function in the General Kommondo, presented the 3 girls with the usual souvenir, - cap ribbons.

Transcription: Left page   How rapidly the map changes:- Manchuria Abyssinia China Czecho-Slovakia Albania Memel Poland Estonia Latvia Lithuania The colourless - almost scared - look of the "Irish Press" led me to suggest to Cremins to send home a detailed report of the Swiss Press, the press of a small neutral country directly under the menace of German force while we are quite sheltered. No doubt the German Minister bullies and our inexperience - not lack of courage or conviction - leads to a false understanding of what neutrality demands -  Right page   7/10/39.   Pierre Stoppani   très touché de votre témoignage d'amitié, vous exprime         ses plus sincères remerciements. 25, Rue St-Louis                 Versailles "The parting gift" has been a tri-weekly affair this year. Some we are definitely sorry to see leave us including Pierre Stoppani, Italian, non-Fascist, for many years Director of Economic Relations. Hume Wrong, Canadian Delegate, has left for London where he will be attached to the H.C.  Of Irish descent, & intelligent. grandfather was ? Blake- ...,

Transcription: Left page   in coming years if & when the German menace of domination had disappeared & a Russian menace emerged. I used to estimate the latter moment as 15 or more years hence. But things have moved quickly. It might come if Russia began to show too much interest in Asia minor or Afghanistan & Persia. But it is remote and the immediate danger is - The Nazi. Looking today at Stalin's cold-blooded imperialism I feel a little less sure that the failure of the Anglo-Russian talks was altogether Britain's fault. G.B. could not offer such material baits to an allied Russia.  Right page   Friday 6th October 39 If Hitler's speech today was the high point of the Peace Offensive he has much disappointed me.  I put his intelligence too high.  I expected something which would have the appearance of gen erosity, something which might deceive the unwary, tempt a war-hating world to begin talking and thus inevitably leave him with the substantial fruits of his latest aggression, make people forget the corpses still smoking on the plains of Poland and seek again a fatal and deceptive peace.   There was a chance that he might have won if he could have made his proposals look well enough to divide opinion and shake morale.   I see no or very little danger of that now.  He talked about his Good Neighbour policy with amazing effrontery- and demanded colonies. It was the same speech as we have heard several times after a conquest.  Am almost inclined to think that something went wrong: was it Italy? References to disarmament and a conference are not enough.   I can hardly believe they in Berlin think it is.

Transcription: Thursday 5/10/39 Lunched with Savickis, Lithuanian Minister, who is anxiously awaiting news of the Moscow-Kaunas "conversations", He remarked on the wisdom of his Govmt. having resisted advice for extremists to seize Vilna again before the Russians arrived. There was, he feared, little chance that Russia wd- hand it over. Deprived of its only part by the German seizure of Memel, Lithuania has not so much interest for Russia as Latvia & Estonia. Other guests were Adrien Lachenal, Borberg, Jean Martin, Mme- Feldmans, Skylstad. Sokoline today came back to his conviction of impending peace. As That would be a German victory - I don't agree. Also again emerged his fear of a possible Anglo-German alliance against Russia. That might be a possibility

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