Transcription: item 75                                                       69                                             Pa t r u i l l e n                                         ----------------------------            Der ganze Winter ist die Zeit,wo im Hinblick auf die et- waige Frühjahrsoffensive zur Feststellung der gegenüeberliegen- den Truppenteile gewaltsame Patruillenvorstösse gemacht werden. So kam auch 16/17,als wir am Chemin des Dames waren von oben der Befehl dazu und das Regiment beauftragte die Batl.und diese die Komp.die Möglichkeiten dazu auszuarbeiten.So erkundeten wir schon in unserer ersten Stellungsperiode bei der 2.Komp., wenigstens noch das Drahtverhau,es war so dicht,dass man den Verlauf seiner Teile oder das Zwischengelände bei Tag nicht sehen konnte,ausser von bestimmten erhöhten Punkten,etwa Artilleriebeobachtungen,die Posten konnten nichts sehen.

Transcription: Left page   Monday, September 1st 1941 The Russo-German war is in its tenth week and it certainly has surprised most of the World and I should say the Germans too. They have gained substantial territory and claim fantastic captures, but Russian resistance is unbroken and there is no sign so far of a collapse. The Germans have invested Odessa and are making slight progress towards Moscow and Leningrad. The campaign weather will cease at the end of this month. There seems reasonable prospect to assume that the potential of Russian resistance will remain. This is a new phase of the war and quite likely to be of great importance. Iran has been occupied by Russian-British forces as providing a line of communications other than Vladivostock. Massigli, French ex-Ambassador, said to me the other day, he thought the armistice would be signed in November 1942. Too optimistic No one has been much surprised that a young Frenchman has shot Laval, whose condition is serious. The boy had joined a small volunteer force which was to go to fight the Russians and they were being inspected in Paris by Laval.- The Germans are said to have taken 25% at least of their occupying troops from France for the Eastern front. I met Politis at luncheon on Saturday. He is more talkative than ever because he has become more deaf and does not like anything but a monologue. Very interesting however, especially on his impressions in France. He is not pro-German now if ever. He was talking a lot about the reforms being carried out in France by the Vichy Government when Rappard managed to intervene and said that it seemed a pity Vichy should make decrees now perhaps for reforms which were in themselves good but which would be discredited in the eyes of the French people simply because they had been made by a régime in which the people had no confidence. I had myself been trying to say, not so well, that anything Vichy did in this way at the moment was completely unimportant. Rappard went a little further. Darlan, presumably replying to Sumner Welles and the American press, which begins to have favourable articles on the League, and perhaps to the "Democratic Charter" - the eight points drawn up by Roosevelt- Churchill, gave an interview to the Gazette de Lausanne.  Right page   Having repudiated the suggestion that he and Hitler were planning that France would take over the Suisse Romande, he added that there was one thing in Switzerland he disliked very much and that was the League and then proceeded with an attack. This is a change from non-interventionist policy in international politics and is virtually an invitation to the Swiss to get rid of us. Loveday, who saw Jacklin in Montreal, says he has improved beyond recognition. This rather confirmed the better impression I have had lately. The cure is the result of getting amongst his own people again. Even the English Bank Manager here remarked to me the other day a propos of some trouble about the control of the banking accounts, that before he left Jacklin had been in the jitters with stories of the Gestapo following him. Roger Makins was also sent to be in attendance at the Supervisory meeting at Montreal. I think this was a gesture in view of my expressed opinion as to Jacklin's political competence. On the whole, the thing went off well, the ILO being of course much better treated than the Secretariat. At any rate we have a budget adopted for 1942 and can probably find the money to cover that year. Nevertheless, I have been asked to save 20% of a budget which was already based upon what seemed to be the minimum actual expenditure. I have just taken ten days at Mülhen in the Grisons, 1460 metres, and spent a few days fishing the Julier river up to 1660 metres. Marvellous country and fishing unusual and interesting; trout seem to average about 3/4 of a pound; I got ten in six days up to a pound; dry fly fishing difficult owing to broken water. Also visited Zurich and Rheinfelden and passed through Bâle. A Zurich manufacturer at the hotel at Mühlen whom I asked as to how opinion on the war was divided in Zurich answered simply: "there is no division" a contrast to Geneva. The Chief Censor at Bermuda has sent apologies to me and has explained that the so-called "watch list" contains people from the whitest white to the blackest black, etc.

Transcription: P1/10 (15) Geneva, August 1st, 1941. Dear Arthur, I have had three heavy envelopes from you and as usual am circulating the press clippings to Aghnides, Charron, Vigier. The letters received are of July 3rd, 18th and 21st; it is interesting to get a letter from Colorado dated July 21st on the 1st August! I wish Ireland were as near. 2 - I note what you say in your letter of the 3rd about the S.G.'s report. I am afraid you will be bitterly disappointed when you see the report, which has probably reached you by this time. It is simply impossible for me at the present time, especially while holding headquarters here in Europe, to write it on the basis of broad lines and free spirit which you can conceive to be desirable; it could not be aimed at stirring the imagination or at moving popular interest. I had noticed Winant's valedictory repcrt with its touches of eloquence and vision; that sort of thing was out of the question in our case; it would, I imagine, have been a question to be considered seriously even if we had abandoned headquarters and were living in your free atmosphere. It had to be more or less in that of establishing in the Governments minds that the organization functioned in spite of all its difficulties and that it wanted only a reviving touch of power to make it what they would. Ninety-nine percent of it therefore will seem humdrum matter-of-fact foot-pace stuff. If it gives the impression that the organization is alive, is working and holds all its potentialities, we shall have reached something. I imagine you are thinking about a sort of clarion call. It would be gratifying and pleasing for me to try to draft that, but perhaps it is better, even should it be possible, that it is not done in the annual report at the present moment. Perhaps I shall have no other opportunity, but we shall see. At the moment, there seems to be an extremely interesting turn in the tide; it is beginning to flow again "far off in distant creeks". My hesitation is not from timidity, but from judgement. 3 - That reminds me there was a note struck in one of your encyclopaedic articles which you sent to me to which I intended to draw your attention: not so much of "the deserted Palace" touch in any future writing. I know that mental picture is a very great temptation; I doubt if it is entirely sound. I would see no objection to quote "the deserted Council Chamber", but it should be offset by a picture of quiet, steady work, actual services maintained and being rendered, readiness (?) for the future, fate not yet decided - and also for the United States not so much emphasis on the reductions and economies enforced, as on what is still maintained. Reflect upon this angle and I think you may agree with me that we should avoid anything smacking of sentiment over the sepulchre.

Transcription: P1/10 (14) -2- from Admiral Mahan. If Britain and America win the war,  a similar necessity or temptation does not exist. I am convinced that this danger would be a real one. It would be all the more probable if one had to envisage the possibility of an intercontinental war following more or less quickly the conclusion of the present war. I am not, as you will notice, in anyway discussing our present national policy of neutrality. I feel it would not be right for me to do so. The question which keeps coming to my mind and which I have presented to you is not a question dependent upon whether we have been as neutral as our colourless press and the peaceful pronouncements of the Government indicate or whether popular sentiment has even tended to be influenced by our bitter experiences with the British in the past. It is not an idea of which I would speak freely with any but one of ourselves and you will understand that I have to write to you entirely personally and confidentially. I felt it my duty and my right at two critical moments in the last two years to offer my services to the Government for any purpose which would be useful. Circumstances have now placed upon me other unexpected responsibilities and duties, but in carrying them out I am, believe me, not only moved by a personal desire not to desert an unpleasant post, but also because to follow one's inclinations on the easier road would not be worthy of my country. Will you please excuse a stranger writing to you and accept my very best wishes, Yours sincerely,

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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