Transcription: November 28 1941 The newspapers announced that A. has been received by the Marshal at Vichy. A few days after, Colonel Bach, now a Préfet, was received by the Marshal. A conversation with Agh. this morning brings back to mind certain matters. Bach was a military expert in the Secretariat seconded from the French Army. Amongst other things he was sent to Barcelona at the time of the Spanish civil war to deal with the repatriation of the International Brigade, a politically delicate affair. Bach as a result of that mission received one or two beautiful souvenirs from the Republican authorities, but Vejarano not very long ago stated to Agh. that Bach had promised him to send him copies of any Republican plans he received. The suggestion was that there was much double-crossing. The same man was Avenol's personal agent in Paris being reported to be close to Daladier in connection with the expulsion of Russia from the League. Bach had as ostensible mission to be in touch with the French military authorities with regard to aid to Finland. Renborg who had been sent to Sweden on the same sort of work to help the Finns came back through Paris where he had a long talk with Bach and on arrival here warned Aghnides that Bach was a "dishonest man". He is now chosen as one of the Préfets of the new régime with very extensive police powers over the population. This brought back to our minds more of the story of Avenol's part in that Russian affair and its relation with the activities of certain elements of the right in France with regard to the war and Germany in particular. I am speculating about Avenol's visit to Pétain; I know that he has been "flirting" with the Comte de Paris pretending to be a kind of elder statesman. There is an inner story as to what happened about the expulsion of Russia from the League. I do not know all of it. A. had been in Paris when the talk on Finland began and immediately he came back he told me of his plan for the expulsion of Russia. I presumed he had been in close touch with the Quai d'Orsay and the French Government and had consulted the British as they were more closely concerned. When he told me I put to him: How would it affect the war? Would it throw the Russians completely into Germans hands? He said they were already and the situation could not be affected. The Assembly meeting was reached and during that meeting Butler who was British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs asked Aghnides why this policy had been pursued so strongly. Aghnides said he supposed it was the Quai d'Orsay, but Butler said the Quai d'Orsay had known

Transcription: Left page   7 - I shall send you soon a rather interesting table which is being prepared here and from which you will see that in spite of tremendous reductions in budget and the low percentage of income which has been available, the Secretariat proper has lived within its income during all these trying years. But, as I said to Loveday, I begin to wonder whether this is a matter for congratulation or reproach. From this remark you will see that although my own share in administration has been largely based on what you would call pure treasury principles, I have grave doubts if in a war for survival a nation or an instituion should not be prepared to let posterity carry some little share of the risks and costs. I cannot say I would be entirely gratified merely by a solvent winding-up leaving, unrealized for the purposes of life, assets which should at the right moment be used. I am conservative and prudent by nature, but am far from blind to the advantages of courageous and confident action. Sincerely Charron on ILO Report "un certain complexe d'inferiorité".; "le ton, le style en sont excessifs, les idées parfois extravagantes"; "la petite mesquinierie à l'égard de la S.d. N. est enfantine".  Right page   P1/10 (19) 20.XI-41 Dear Jacklin, I wrote the enclosed [foregoing] over a week ago but have not hurried to send it off. I am still however without any report or papers concerning the ILO Conference and do not know how far its actions and the views of the Delegations justify the doubts raised by Phelan's report. Although I very much doubt the wisdom of allowing unilateral action by one organization to prejudge the general future before the problems have been surveyed from other angles, one realizes of course that incidents of this kind have the habit of becoming less important with the aid of perspective and the sense of proportion. There is still much water to flow under the bridge. I shall write to you again when more information is available; then I hope you will do the same. 2 - One has the general impression that the Conference served certain useful political purposes, especially in the absence of League meetings. It was no doubt useful for internal USA politics and gave a natural platform to the Allied Governments, or perhaps more accurately, a platform for the expression of the natural sentiments of the Allied people. In this direction I hope it will prove to have been really useful. One organization of the League has certainly had the benefit of bringing itself before the public, although the conclusion of certain newspapers that it is the only part of the League which survives is rather misleading. 3 - The maintenance of the League organization with its present foundation of 46 States remaining, at least theoratically, attached to it; even the maintenance of the Covenant pending reorganization is, I am convinced, good statesmanship. If the headquarters were to move we could of course more easily make political demonstrations. Indeed such demonstrations could also be made in present conditions, but any such decision would have to be based upon the value attached to holding a political bridgehead inside Europe. Our departure might simplify diplomatic action in Europe in favour of the "New Order", even though final decisions will obviously depend on tanks and ships and planes. It is smart, but not necessarily politically wise, to say that the holding of headquarters in spite of all kinds of circumstances must be accompanied by"creeping paralysis". Whether that is so will depend in the first case on you and me and the Supervisory Commission and the determination of interested Governments. Any natural being would prefer to

Transcription: Left page   11-11-41 Dear Jacklin, Your letter T.233 No.19 of October 20th has arrived  (much quicker than those immediately preceeding it). As regards Ned's report and what I saw in the newspaper summaries of the I.L.O. Conference, it seems that we share a common opinion. On the 3rd November I wrote a personal letter to Roger [Makins] which dealt with one or two more general aspects. 2 - I enclose for your information the substance of two letters to Loveday. I had been intending to write to you in the same sense, but with more detail. These two enclosures however will show you some of my reactions both to the report and to the Chairman's [HAMBRO] suggestion that the attenuated Secretariat budget should find the same amount of economies as asked from Ned. I have not written to the Chairman at all on the subject, but I wanted Loveday to have a general background in case he should be asked for an opinion. The absence of any real financial control of the ILO, the lack of knowledge of the Supervisory Commission of its position, the old practice of concentrating nine-tenth of the Commission's time to detailed examination of the Secretariat budget, the laudable application in one organization of treasury principles and other similar factors have now led us into the present situation. 3 - Ned's [Phelan] generalship has from his point of view been perfect. Lagging a year or two behind the Secretariat in making substantial reductions, he has been able to do practically what he likes with the S.C. I maintain he has practically established the right to separate collection. For two years, even with reductions, he has been able to get through a budget which did not represent proportionate sacrifices and which could only be presented to States through the efforts made by the Secretariat to keep  the total demands down to the required figures. He has a on the policy that funds will be found for him; that if he keep up a good show of activity it represents the best claim to life and support. With the headquarters transferred outside (though against his personal judgement at that time) they have made popular, perhaps demagogic propaganda, very often implicitly if not explicitly at the expense of the organization that stuck to its headquarters. He says that by this transfer the ILO has escaped death by creeping paralysis and one can draw an inference. He is fighting and building to preserve his own organization irrespective of any link. I have not a word to say against th but when having been able to get his way through the complacen or, if you like, the policy of the 3.C. and at the expense of the other organization, he proceeds to claim to take over work which has been outside his competence, I have to ask myself seriously what are the intentions of the S.C. and how do they affect my share of responsibility and how it is going to affect the future.  In the margin  Supervisory Commission  Right page   4 - It would be of course easier for me simply to wash my hands of responsibility for the future, especially as I have not the personal contacts which I should have, and merely refuse to be a party to any destruction of this organization. Perhaps the future reorganization is not, as I very much fear, being already prejudiced without the examination and consideration which it should have. It makes me think again about Northerner's [Hambro's] proposal for a Committee and whether it was as wise as I thought it was to postpone action which might seem to be in advence of the desires of Governments or in advance of the present state of public and political opinion. No such inhibitions affect my forceful compatriot with his backing of organized labour in free countries. 5 - There is one thing on which I must insist and I would like you to be equally convinced: from the composition and occupation of a large proportion of its staff, the ILO's activities are much more non technical than the Secretariat. This is an opinion formed exclusively on such information as I have regarding that staff and what they are doing and the full knowledge I have of the Secretariat equivalent. On the other hand the Secretariat in the public mind (perhaps including the S.C.!) carries over from past times the reputation (I nearly said odium) of being political. It certainly does in one way remain the flag or symbol of international political collaboration and organization. That indeed is one of the reasons why I have thought it worth my while to give some devotion and some obstinacy to its maintenance. But the staff and the expenditure are directed in more technical channels than that of the sister organization. 6 - These reflections, necessarily incomplete, are not the result of the Conference which merely seems to have put the cap upon my anticipations and premonitions. It now seems to be assumed that the still generous treatment of the ILO by the S.C. was not enough. The half-million asked from them could have been made without the slightest inconvenience, are further raids to be made into husbanded resources? As you say, however, we need not cross those bridges until we come to them. Perhaps special grants in your letter will mean voluntary grants by certain Governments after they have paid their contributions. The framing of any such request would have to be very carefully considered as there are Governments which might well take it as a moral and even legal acquittance of their normal contributions to the League as a whole.

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