Transcription: July 15, 1940 Mr. Elliott Felkin League of Nations Geneva, Switzerland Dear Elliott: This is just a line, without being sure it will reach you to tell you, in the midst of far graver events, that there is, despite all, considerable solicitude in Washington regarding the future of the Anti Drug Work. The other day I happened by accident to be lunching at the same place with Fuller, who took the occasion to ask me to drop in to see him the next day. I found him very anxious to know what was happening at Geneva, how much staff was being retained and what the possibilities were of continuing the present arrangements. Almost nothing has come to this country beyond the most sweeping press statements that all resignations had been requested and that probably everything was closing up. Even the Consulate, it seems, has sent on very little but a query has been directed to them on this particular matter. Fuller hopes, of course, that the work can go on as it is but at the same time if it cannot the question will naturally arise as to what should be done. I cannot see any desire here to make any move at this time, rather the contrary indeed, but obviously the future has to be foreseen. If worse comes to worst there has been some thought of calling a conference of signatory states to establish a special administration perhaps somewhat on the lines of the Office International d'Hygine Publique at Paris. This contingency is far, as yet, from having arisens nevertheless I think I ought to tell you of the preoccupation here so that you can let us have any possible information, particularly as regards staff and plans. Fuller pointed out to me a considerable collection of data that he had ready to send to Geneva but had held up on account of the present uncertainty. Similarly, the day after I saw him he had lunch with Anslinger and May, obviously to discuss this general situation. You probably also know the Princeton Institution in inviting the League's Technical Agencies to come to this country, especially included the opium work amongst them.

Transcription: P1/8 (6) - 3 - that if the League came it. would come frankly as a foreign agency on its own without American  ... whereas the I. L. O. would be an agency for which our Government would have a responsibility not only in giving an asylum but also as the most active official member. All of this however, may be out-dated by the time you get this letter. Still, knowing all the various angles involved, I thought you would be interested to have these details. I was very interested also, as you can imagine, in what you said about Frank. I had a long letter from his as well, from London and understand his situation fully. It is too bad that he had to go at this time but I think it was inevitable. I have just sent him a cable saying we would be very happy to take his two girls in case he wants to send them over. You will be interested to know also that I bumped into Rajchman in the State Department last week and found him very busy with Polish refugees. I also had a letter from Voukitchevitch who is in New York, a telephone call from Rasminski, and meetings with loads of other old friends from Geneva. Never I think have there been more different angles here than now. Do please write again as fully as possible. You cannot imagine how good it is to get news, even if it is negative news. There seemed to be all sorts of little points of contact, yet at the same time an enormous barrier. With again my thanks, constant thoughts and all best wishes, I am Sincerely yours,  Signed   L. S. PS Just back from a busy day with Hambro.I fixed up a lunch with him with Henry Grady, who, as you know, is both Assistant Secretary of State and Chairman of our Economic Committee, an hour's conversation with James Dunn, Political Adviser to the Secretary of State, another talk with Thompson, who is in charge of League affairs, and meetings tomorrow with Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, and Fuller, in charge of anti-drug work. He will probably also see the President, and, if it can be arranged before Mr Hull goes to Havana day after tomorrow, the Sec of State. He has asked me also to arrange for him to go up to Princeton, as I am now trying to do by telephone . . . and thence to New York, for a reception to him at the League Pavilion. The situation is now quite clearer. He is in favor of accepting the Princeton invitation unequivocally, without going into details or anticipating difficulties, but with the thought that, if once under way, means will be found to get around all problems. He thinks the set-up is really excellent, the only practicable one in the circumstances, and he fully understands and shares in the government's difficulties in going further than it has gone. He does not think the League ought to stand on formality but to act temporarily, in an emergency, in a way both to continue its work and assure its contributions from many overseas countries. I was very surprised, I confess, at his viewpoint, but he evidently had it when he came over here and what he has seen so far has only confirmed it.I imagine he will be cabling shortly, so won't try to go into further details in this air-letter.

Transcription: P1/8 (6) - 2 - It is unfortunate that this situation, which is infinitely the most vital before the country, has been cut across by a presidential election. Despite all the ballyhoo, however, the underlying forces will remain the same whoever is elected, though the surface will naturally be considerably confused. Willkie will make an excellent and dignified candidate with a good foreign policy; even today as the Democratic Convention opens no one knows what will happen there. As for myself, I have been constantly busy, as you can imagine. I have seen all sorts and kinds of people in Washington, New York and Boston, made a few speeches, and written a few articles. Last week I was invited to Chicago for the annual meeting of the Harris Institute where I was given the rather heavy job of making the closing speech to a final plenary session comprising over one hundred professors of International Relations from all over the country. The next day, which was a Sunday, I had to give up to attempting to edify the Board of Directors of Rotary International, who were holding a special session to attempt to work out a policy for their organizations all over the world. Last week, after several days here and a day in New York, I was just off for a ten days vacation with the family before accepting an invitation to go across the country, when I had a telephone call from Mr. Hambro who had just arrived in New York from London. It seems that he had had a great deal of discussions over there with Halifax and Butler, Bruce and the other Dominion people, the Dutch and others regarding the possibility of all or part of the League coming over here. He was terribly keen on the subject, thinking that it would be the best way of preserving both the actual work of the League and the contributions of a number of its members. He saw no objection to having only part of the work come here, though he desired as much as possible. At the same time, the actual place seemed to him wholly immaterial in the face of the principles. He was planning to go to Washington straight away to look into the matter and made it quite clear that he would like to have me go along with him. I was just leaving, as I have said, for a short vacation before a hard trip, but felt I had no choice in view of his wishes. Consequently, I have had a day and a half with the family, who incidentally are all at the seashore except for Adelaide, who is still in California, and came down here last night to meet Hambro within the next hour or so. Our Princeton friends, despite the first refusal, have still not given up hope that, now that the situation is even worse, it may still be possible to work something out. Quite by accident last week I ran into Riefler in Grady's office, learning from him of the second cable that they had decided to send last week. I also came down on the train last night with Riefler. The situation here will develop a great deal, I imagine, with Hambro feeling as he does. At the same time, however, it is fair to say that it is not as good as it was at the outset, in view of all the delay, the first refusal, and the general wide disintegration abroad. Also there is a little complication in connection with the I. L. O, for, while I would have thought at first sight that the I. L. O. would be in a better position with us because of American membership and the presence of both Winant and Goodrich, it seems that those facts confuse it just a bit in the sense

Transcription: P1/8 (6) The situation here is really extraordinary. The War, which only a little time ago seemed "phoney", has now become to the ordinary American grim and desperate and personal. Events have had a trip-hammer action one after the other, Norway and Denmark being utterly startling, Holland and Belgium being perhaps the sharpest moral shock, the collapse of France the most unbelievable event, but the danger to the British Fleet being far and away the most personal to us. I would not have dreamed, a few months ago, that isolationism would vanish as it has. Our people are no less anxious, indeed in some ways they are more anxious, to keep out of war than they used to be, but they have suddenly gotten the feeling that perhaps the choice does not rest with them any more than it did with the Danes, the Norwegians, the Dutch etc. Now at long last they appreciate the value to them of the British Fleet and the fact that we have grown up to an easy life behind its shelter. You can hardly imagine the armaments efforts that are being made here. The present appropriations have reached the utterly astronomical figure of ten billion dollars. This would give us a two- ocean Navy for the first time in our history, equipment for two million men, and a force of thirty-six thousand airplanes. At the same- time we are very seriously debating conscription and are considering all sorts of measures for our protection in this hemisphere and for the mobilization of friends.

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