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- 26 November 1940
Fait partie de Seán Lester Collection
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Poetry relating to the death of Humbert Wolfe, p0003
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Poetry relating to the death of Humbert Wolfe, p0004
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Consists of handwritten and typed diary entries, letters, postcards and other documents. Topics include Lester's final months as Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations; his assuming the role of Acting Secretary General following the resignation of Joseph Avenol on 31 August 1940; the dire state of the Secretariat finances, and a bus crash in August involving several League of Nations employees, including Alec [Alexander] Loveday, while travelling to Lisbon, Portugal, as part of the transfer of the Secretariat's technical services to Princeton, USA [a photograph of the crashed bus is included in diary C1/9].
Diary includes letters to Lester from: Alec Loveday, Director of the Economic, Financial, and Transit Department of the League of Nations; Seymour Jacklin, Treasurer of the League of Nations; Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League of Nations; Thamassis Aghnides, Director of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations; Arthur Sweetser, League of Nations' Public Information Section; Hugh McKinnon Wood, Counsellor and Legal Adviser at the League of Nations; Laurence C Tombs, a former official in the Transit and Communications Section of the League of Nations; Edward Joseph Phelan, International Labour Organisation, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt, International Committee of the Red Cross [and previously, Lester's successor as League of Nations High Commissioner in Danzig]. Also includes newspaper cuttings and black and white passport photograph of an unidentified man.
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Dissociated press cuttings from Diary: April - December 1941
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Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0041
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Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters
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Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0003
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Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0001
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Handwritten and typed diary entries relating to Lester's time as Acting Secretary General of the League of Nations in Geneva. Includes numerous diary entries and correspondence concerning Lester's threat to resign his position in June 1941 following his discovery that his name was apparently on a British secret service 'watch list'.
Diary includes correspondence with Seán T Ó Ceallaigh [Sean T O'Kelly], Minister for Finance; James John McElligott, Secretary of the Department of Finance; James Dillon, TD (letter from Lester was unsent); Seymour Jacklin, Treasurer of the League of Nations; Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League of Nations; Hugh McKinnon Wood, Counsellor and Legal Adviser at the League of Nations; Arthur Sweetser, League of Nations' Public Information Section; Frank P Walters, Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations; Roger Makins, British Foreign Office; Anthony Eden, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs; David V Kelly, British Legation in Berne, Switzerland; Harry Livingston, British Consulate in Geneva; Lord Davies [David Davies, 1st Baron Davies]; Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood; Robert Collis, doctor and author; Frank T Cremins, Irish Legation in Berne, Switzerland; Ernst Grunwald ('[an] Austrian textile trader, who was in a civilian camp in Switzerland with his wife and obtained visas thanks to S. Lester's help', according to the finding aid for the Sean Lester collection in the United Nations Archives, Geneva. See reference: PP 274/2/871-873); Gretta Lester, Seán Lester's sister, and Frank Lidgett McDougall, Australia House, London. Also includes several Christmas cards and business cards from various diplomats, dignitaries and friends.
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Telegram from Hambro Phillips Malik to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0001
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Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League
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Copy letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, via Arthur Sweetser.
Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0003
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Fait partie de Seán Lester Collection
Telegram from Hambro Phillips Malik to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0002
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Dissociated correspondence from Diary: April - December 1941
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Dissociated pages from Diary: April - December 1941
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Letter from [?René Massigli], Consulate General of France in Geneva, Switzerland to Seán Lester
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Telegram from Hambro Phillips Malik to Seán Lester
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Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester
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Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0002
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This diary is blank apart from a handwritten note on the very last page ['Rev. Fr. Victor Dillard, French Jesuit, economist, ed. "Cité Nouvelle". Visit Sept. 1942'] and the inclusion of a business card for Monseigneur Henri Petit, Prélat de sa Sainteté, Vicaire Général, Geneva, with a handwritten note in French on it.
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Fearing that the Germans would invade Switzerland during the Second World War, Lester buried his diaries in this metal case next to a bench in the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This is likely why the diary entries stop in 1942.
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0001
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0006
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0014
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0016
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0018
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0020
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0022
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0024
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0030
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0033
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0034
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0039
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0043
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0044
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0049
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0052
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0056
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0062
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0066
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0068
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0074
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0077
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0079
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Diary: May - December 1940, p0083
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Letter from Alexander Loveday, p0002
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0003
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0004
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0001
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0002
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0003
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0003
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0005
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0002
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0005
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940, p0001
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Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0001
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Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0009
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Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0015
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