Transcription: Dined with Ziehen, who was President of the Senate for several years. As we alighted from the car four young men converged, examined us & then withdrew. Police or Nazi. Ziehen who is about 70 & for many years a distinguished Prussian official, is no longer "in politics." He gives the impression of being cultivated & "well-bred"— while most, if not all, of the present government are obviously parvenu. Not that that would matter if they had political balance and commonsense. The dinner party was small Count von Krakov whose old moated castle near Putzing (now in Poland) has been occupied by his family for 800 years. A typical Junker, rather boorish in fact, and with very limited interests. His wife a striking countpart, vivacious & intelligent—a daughter of the von Belaws. Manlein Schmidt, fiancee to Ziehen's son, has just spent a year in T.C.D. & brought messages from friends such as the Misses Cunningham.    Von Paseck had a new story. The King of Italy interviewed was asked what would happen to him if Italy won the war. "I suppose I would become the Negus"; "And if Italy lost?" "Then I might become the King of Italy". von Poseck, just back from Warsaw where he has many connections is certain that Beck's days as Foreign Minister are numbered, and that there will be no further development towards closer Polish-German relations.

Transcription: of a kind for social affairs, she is rather too pressing in her invitations. Her present husband is a timber merchant who lived at Odessa for most of his life. She knew Bishop Count O'Rarke  Rourke  in Petrograd and he dines  with them once a week to talk Russian and play his quite impossible game of bridge.

Transcription: 30-10-35.  Hugh McNeill is dead - a brother of John, James and Charles - one of a remarkable family. A scholar, Hugh was lazy, to the Nth degree, and sometimes drunken. I did not know him as well as John and James, but remember one or two talks with him: e.g. in James garden in Woodtown Park, about Easter, 1916, when his peculiarly wide and detailed knowledge of unusual subjects impressed me. A pity that he could not use it better. He used to wander into newspaper offices late at night & occasionally in need of a little guidance. Hugo, one of his sons, has been Adjutant General of the I.F.S. army & he has at least one charming daughter. I haven't seen Hugh for 10 years, & one never heard of him.   The irrepressible Mrs. Neames has again caught me for dinner - Elsie having gone to Dublin. Cosmopolitan, she clearly belongs to the last century, her clothes (though  always chic), her manner, & even her figure. The ivory fan, nonchalant, or fluttering with emotion, aids the impression. Her frst husband was a British Consul - Boston, Nicaragua, St. Michel (a tiny French colony-island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence of which I had never before heard), the Faroe Islands, and then St. Petersburg. She saw it pass from St. Petersburg to Petrograd to Leningrad, & her tales of the Red Revolution from which she escaped, after many terrifying experiences, a poor refugee. Kind, but a gossip whose tongue is not always reliable, socially ambitious with a flair

Transcription: It is true therefore that Britain was certainly preoccupied by the considerations that  the main burden and most of the sacrifices would fall upon her, and that she felt she was not strong enough to carry it off alone. American opinion at that time was pretty deeply stirred but there was no formal or legal commitment as in the case of League members, and one must notice that popular sentiment in the United States in sympathy with Abyssinia has not so far led to any action likely to embarrass Italy very seriously. I think it is the "New York Times" which a few days ago said that if sanctions fail in this case it would be due to absence of cooperation from the United States.   De Madariaga, who was by reason of intellect and courage the leader of the group of small Powers which fought for the Covenant throughout the Sino-Japanese dispute, was President also of the Committee of Five to investigate the Italo-Abbyssinian question. Three different diplomats said to me in Geneva last month that de Madariaga was very "weak" and had disappointed many people. Italy is very much nearer Spain than Japan was. I hope, however, that consideration is not a complete explanation of de Madariaga's reported weakness. I had no talk with him on the subject myself.

Description: Ratne bojne dopisnice (Feldpost) bile su najfunkcionalnije sredstvo komuniciranja vojnika sa porodicom tokom Prvog svjetskog rata. Većinom su bile cenzurisane i na njima se nalazio pečat vojne cenzure, regimentalni pečat i pečat vojne pošte. Na velikom broju dopisnica nalazila su se sva tri pečata, međutim, nerijetko se nalazio samo jedan ili dva. Poznato je da su vojnici bili strogo kažnjavani ukoliko su svjesno pisali bilo šta što otkriva vojne tajne. Pisati su mogli samo vojnici. Sve što bi napisali davalo bi se vojnom cenzoru da to pregleda i tek kad on odobri moglo se poslati porodici. Čitajući pisma, može se uvidjeti da su ona poprilično štura, te da su dobro pazili o svemu šta je napisano, upravo iz razloga da bi izbjegli probleme sa nadređenim. Feldpost sistem Austro-ugarske Monarhije, omogućavao je vojnicima da komuniciraju sa svojim najbližima. Sačuvane razglednice i pisma pružaju lični pogled na to kako su pojedini vojnici doživljavali sukobe. || Devet bojnih dopisnica (Feldpost)

Description: Este un volum de jurnal din cele trei deţinute de Biblioteca Judeţeană Octavian Goga Cluj. || Dumitru Nistor, ţăran din satul Năsăud s-a născut în 1893. Visând din copilărie să călătorească şi să vadă ţări străine, în 1912, când vine vremea “număraşului” (recrutării) el cere să fie primit nu în miliţia ardeleană, unde erau recrutaţi de obicei românii, ci în marina austro-ungară. Terminând şcoala de marină, după o călătorie la Viena, este îmbarcat ca Geschützvormeister (“primul îndreptător de tun”) pe vasul SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth, cu destinaţia Asia. Prins de război în Marea Chinei, crucişătorul Kaiserin Elisabeth participă la câteva bătălii navale, pentru ca în 2 noiembrie 1914 să se hotărască scufundarea lui. Echipajul pierde şi lupta terestră, este luat prizonier de japonezi şi transportat în arhipelagul nipon. Timp de zece luni, ţăranul-marinar din Năsăud va fi prizonier într-o mănăstirea buddhistă din Himeji, iar apoi mutat într-un lagăr, construit special pentru prizonierii germani şi austrieci, la Aonogahara, nu departe de Kobe, unde va rămâne până la sfârşitul anului 1919.

Description: Potrošačka kartica sadrži podatke o osobama koje su se prijavljivale radi raspodjele živežnih namirnica u Zagrebu tijekom Drugog svjetskog rata. Sadrži podatke o podnosiocu prijave (ime i prezime, adresa) te osobama koje se nalaze u kućanstvu, njihova imena, godine rođenja, odnos prema podnosiocu prijave, zanimanje i mjesto rada.

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