such hanericsn ssppzimr(~lbin ( ~ a c k ) Johnston =as with hin as

Xtwopcasn ~ommiosioner) heartiness prevails and one t P r e a of St.

We dined together wZth Swe-tser and ~ e l t at the Higot Villa.

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"League of Hationa Dayt* was celebrated at the Her York'

VorXd's Wfr on Sipturdrcy, Qataber 21se9 in socorbnce with the

prauti~e of the Fair t o devote a special day to saoh official

with spt~Ee%~brsz reg~eeen%lag not only the Lrtague and the Pair

bu3 also the United& Statels Federal authorftie~*

&# &&win F, Roo@evelZ, Director of Faref gn P&rt%cri@atf on,

yreroidesd and Xr. Juliuar Bcrlmes, Ass is tant t o the Preeridsnt of

the Pair, weloomed the m e a t s an behalf o f the Pair. &,

3kangasSn Gerig, Deputg Cemmissioner-13en~ral I spoke in New Yo*

on b s h l f of the League and MT, Adrian keltl C O I ~ ~ ~ ~ S S ~ Q ~ ~ ~ - ~ Q A @ X L ~ ~

detained at Geneva, sent greetings by radio*

Hon, Henry F. GraBy, Assistan* Secretarr of St&%% and aenbsr

of the League's Scancrmtic Camittee, carao froa Washfngtoa t o

partScipate in the cererazony and nade a atstemenf Sn regard to

American collaboration with the League* We Charles a?. $~oQfard

Deputy Commfsaioaex of the UnPted States New York Worldto Fair

Sutuui@sisn, syoka OD the future of the League. br, Prank

B~udrsau~ former Acting Pirectas of the Leagus8s Besltb Ssetfan,

and other representative hericans also stressed their fa i th in

the League.

A n interesting feature of the ceremony -8 the prersenoe in

Geneva of &, Grover "Whalen, kresident of the Fair, who Se now

visiting Europe wi t12 his &haropean ~ o i i a e i o n e r , Era dlbin

Johnson, Iln caanecti~n with the trontinuation of the Fair next

year. Ms. Whalsn a las woke frogs Gene= by radio*

Pinally, Er, Sean S o s t e ~ , Deputy SecretarpGenera1 of the

League, delivered a special radio address on the present ~d

future work of the League.

Reports from B e r York indicate a P s ~ ~ g e atlt~nzhnce at the

ceraaaanyt with perfect weather and exoellent radio mceiytlon

from Gem=,

The speeobser follows-

GXTBACT SYYECH BY EeRa CitBDT

Eeaae ier not solely a polit ical wsttsr. If 51 is t o bs

enduring At must be based upon the prospikrity and well-being of

the psap3.e~ of the world, For this reason we have weloumed the

opportunity t o participate in the Leap;uets efforta t o organiss

cooperation in the fPePds o f economfca, finance and health, and

in dealing with a multitude of other sooisl and technical

problems, and we have received nany benefits from our yartSciystion

in the League's work in these fields. The recent outbreak of

war serves t o fnditmte theLt efforts whfcb have been rn~dat t o

satablish unety and hamany in the world have not been adequate,

They mattrrsf bs s4;r~rrgtbened in the ywrs ahead, To be effectire,

such e f fo r t s resqu5rs ooaraSnation and direction. In view of tha

hi& degree of ~ 0 ~ ~ p 1 e x i t y lend far-rsoohisZ.g interdependenas fn

m a d m ~ c ~ n o a y , it cannot be expected %hat world unity rill coma

about without carefd. planning and international orgap~isstion,

Bseent sveafe hsrvrs proven in a g r f m the need of aoxe rather

tba less machinew for peaas, a aesd, whioh will becoma increas-

ingly erpy&renS when the pr@~Emt canflSet csaSa8rel.** It Ss

cartah, I believe, that in the canstructfona of the next part-

nar order the League which for twenty yeasa has been &a experi-

nental Zaboratsrgr in the arganisat Pun of intematlansl ~ocSety -11

have an ilaportarnt pl&cal

S13EECB BY MR. LZSTSI,

You who kiave gathered t a &ow your interest in the League

may ask w h a t it i s doing and i>la9nfxlg in these %rag40 d a y s @ That

question I shall attemgt t o answer briefly and lcorrciseZyt leavfw

a s i h the larger d o l i t i o s l issues. Of thanj you can judge ss

w e l l as we) perhaps, with your ysrspeotive, even batter.

A p e a t disaster has came upon the world.

Bisto~y r r r u ~ t assess i t s eausee.

Thi.8 asttaajtrophe narks a collective faf l w e far mankind; s

failure in aUah a l l of .rag h v e same sherrar and on scooun't o f

which we aiulert a11 feel a deep humilityl

What Pn this tom world a- the League do 4;adsyP There

are I think three f i c k d s o f activity8 a first during the present

misf at seuond, at the settls~entj and thfrd, during the

reconrs%mct&an afterwards. Let ms aulalysa each briefly and try

t o osst some light h t o the zmoertain future eurd giwa perbapa

some s n c o ~ ~ e m e n t 932 this ~ r e 8 e n t dark Iima8nta

F i r s t , w h a t can the Lsagus do in the crisis? Obviously i t

will have t o tiadapt i t 8 work considerably. Sme sativiticer

which rere very desirable in a s b t e of peace will bacoma

Qntpoesible tn a state of" -. Other8 not xrlrse8~4 933 t h e of peaticre

tfll probabXy &evelop. PSsarma8leat, for Sastanee, on which sucth

efforts haw been and dl1 spin be ersr2ed, i s not for today;

cultural effort@ &re difficult under present circurrrstanoeag other

aotivftfes repreaentfng same o f the higheet ideals of e iv i l i sa f ia

may have f a be suspended+

Methods of work nrtlept change, allso, The =any meetings whi~b,

5n recent years, hare brought geople together from all over ths

world and f o r all. sorts of fntlerests nil1 have t o be seduoed.

got only f e travel very difficulf in war conditions bere, but m a

tend t o withdraw within the ir own frontiers, Vork requiring the

presence o f p o p l e from many cauntries at cornon centre a911

be di f f iau l t bath materially and peychologically. This will

inev9ta'bly tend towards moss eanoentrated and ex;l@rt activities

and ~tudierer*

Great opportulf t i s a reaafn open, however* The twentieth

bssemhly wh2ch meets next lon nth for questions such a g the thPr4

general eleation of JuQes of the &e?maqent Court; of Infsxsl .t3o~Z

Justfce, w i l l outline future Lsague work, ;particularly in econmi~,

sotliar. and health matters.

The 'League, will s t i l l , despite the war, find a l a r e f i e l d

of usehtlnear~~ k b l i c health matters will bulk very Isrr$re,

perhaps even larger than before the war, The L~otgue*s worldwfBe

service of egSdeaiological intelligence a i J 1 be nore and nore

necessary as n;atioaaX services beema over-burdened by ftae new

omerpncles, snd as new eplbeaics, perhaps, deveSop,ouf of the

war in both Europe surd A s i a ,

kroblerns of nutrition, for which the League has bui l t up a

far-reaching system of study and ca-oparstiarr, are likely t o taka

on grater importmas aar foe4 supplies djlninish snd poverty

increases throughout $he world+

The League's anti-drug work reyresenS~ the most highly

dem2oyad cooperation yet attained a~ongst the nations+ I t w i l l ,

be in~reasfngly essentialb s o t only bacauss government esatrol

nay relax uxider the strain of w a r but a l s o because there is a1way~~1

f&r greater sddiction to drugs Sn such time@.

The same grim necessity exists far tho continuation of the

League's efforts against trafflic i n women and children, in faoe

of the dialocationa and poverty of war.

Then them ia the field of eoonora%cs and f i m a e . The

Laague's work of ~eatra1ising ennd a o o r d f r m t i ~ infol~asatioxr Prom

all parts sf the wor ld , which ha8 been o f imense value t o Govern-

nents, businesmen and sstudents alike,. wilf. also t&ke on added

h y o r f ~ o e as cnnditiane change frm m n t h t o saonth, from day t o

day, f t ~$11 be more bgortant than ever, intieed, t o know no+

only a9 the activity of the world% seonomic atachinery, but of

the my in which puvarpmeats are changing, improving, hped iqg

or breaking f b t machinery through war meagures.

There are but a f e w s e n p l e ~ of present y o e s i b i l i t i e e ~ they

a m far frulai exhaustive, The: conclusioxi wsuM seem *t;o be t b f

while mch regular League wo*, SncZuBisrg aonre of if@ most

deeirable, fill have t o be sacrifiaed, such w i l l be even more

neoessary than 'before. St521 Bore o f a whaZly new type will

develop dut of the Useapse, ill-health, poverty, malnufritfon a d

other offfspring o f war.

Not by any reeans fhs l e a s f o~ntributian that the League aan

aaks at thia present moment is of a definitely rnorsl and

spfrituacl rmture. It oan, in fact, keep alive at least one

aentre of faternatisraal coIlabor&tion and sanity where men*s

efforts are cooperative sad where whatever is poss ible in the way

of interrrra.tiarna1 collaboration w i l l rstill ffnd wolcoms etnd

asrsisfanca. T h a t alone would llaarsr than justify i t 8 efforts.

The eacund responsibility which the League B P U S ~ fore8ee i g

in relation t o the eetSl@ment whSch rill cven%ually come out ~f

the pressrjlt canflicpt* Whether sz not the League as such has a

dietinct ro l e to play at that t h e ) the expsrPenes it b a

rac~uired during the parat twenty years r219 be essential. Betem

the last war those had bean l i t t le exgsrfenoe with general

organissd Antemati o m 2 co-opration$ there was, fndeeb, no

maohSnsrl~r for the purpose als there ; 9 ~ today, Conferanas,

dfrrcussio~ and rstudhy ;have sinus then csrested a m a t ~ikserv03.r

of experienae and bowledge ragartling such problmr as disar9pa-

nent, $xadiag rta1~btiun~) ~ z ' & ~ B P o P ~ , ourrency and f%nsnee, contm2,

of barikward areas and the l i k e , Sweaty years* exyerience bas

bean had in all %he~ilrp fields4 nea have begun t o know what i e

practiorabla and what is not; %hey have begun t o ses at Z w s t the

possible disection of international action, The erperSsnae

ocqufrsd so laboriously lest Cane- these past two deoa4s~ fill IMD

2nmluabXe when the world oases %o 1 % ~ next re~sttlemeat.

A third respon#fbility for %he League sill be fhs % h o s t

lo~er+b_ah%ng psoBPe;~ls of reo~nstruction whlch xi11 have t o follow

fbe &ematation sf mar. It i s ~wsrential t o tblo iatsresrts of all

tbt Ithare be planning for post-war econaaic oondftions, *%ah

will ccloaely and witally affect every nation AA the world,

bellSprent; andl n ~ u t r a l a l i k e . These yrobleas will deaanrrlt &A

effort, pes ter and more world-ride, tharr ratankrnd hss ever

attenptsd. Tho ljations rill have need of every aouroe of'

s8rer~gtls esud oooi~artrtion yorasible. They w i l i have t~ go far

s f f e l d in old damins an6 enter entirely new and unexsloracd ones.

As the Secretary-CeneraX mid at the oyening of the League's

"Think of the problens that w i l l arise when tbe

annsments race is closed, whether by war or by m i n t B k f

psablsma wi3.S be raised thraugh the closing dom ox the

The League hap had an experience in effecting international

cooperaltion and aaeteting renargenciasr mch as nu other aprscry.

f t is only necessary to recall Dr. Nanaent s superb work in

mpatriatkng some 400,000 prisoners of war, the safeguarding o f

Europe against the westward march of a devastating porat-war typhus

epiCem?Lc, the interchange of rt rai219cn and a half Greeks an4

Turks in Mstory* its grastedsst; transf .esr of populetli~ns, the fiamcial

assi.stazlcs g5vsn 80188 h d f dosen d&ngarausly-s't;rain~d States fa

eastern &"usopet l a X l t o clear away the debris of the l a a t

nrjLr and gmvent the outbreak of new diaalsterrs. l h n y a b i l t a r

p r o b l e ~ a , alae, a d perhaps on an even greater scale, rill preeent

$hensse2vea afier the confl ict of t a b y when the L e a s e aachinezcg

will osrtstnly have it@ cantrfbu-t;lan t o mprke.

Vs muaZ axso re~eaiBer that the pre-war Tear of 1939 was $82

fron normal. The world has been l i v ing tn a state of ~USSP*

persslanent energenoy, War has found lrrany probleme; nstiell unsolved

aad no patch-work reoonatruiaticm w%ll do,

m e League, though going through t i i f f i e a t tfmea t o b y , HIBLX

face i t s greateat possibi l i - t i ss tsmrtrrow+ Cooysratian miongot

nstione is seassn.tri~~Z unless the world i~ going t o resim i t se l f

t o 3erpetual canfliat and war. Forms may ck~nga but tha

prfnciplet3 and a~zeds remain. The, wor3idvs hopera have been oast

&om, 'but S;n one fonn or anothe~ humariity must find some metho&

t o svfo5d war and t o enable peoples t o give a d %a gef the ooopara-

tion vrhfoh prsgrees 4emainde. To that enit, tbe pseeent inter-

must be, preserved dur b g

the, e-n grsalsr cririris ~hfcb may oome when 'the amitka alps unlookedl,

The League sepre~entrs a gropbg of mankind far a better way

of settling disputes than sleughtler and the ruthless use o f

military foroe; wfeee Zt, or sontething Pike it, is given the

aeoessary mppsrf, the worltf yill never rim above a state of

rscuxrent war and crisi~, There ni l1 be, as &firc ds Valema

once mid, a return t o the l a w o f the jungle+ L e t u~ not, there-

fore, indulge in pessl.m%rmt a r harsh judpsn l j let ual on the

eontmry, look into .the future with determination and fagth,

.ar%icularly on this day of r ~ c ~ n s t ~ ~ c t l o n devoted t o the Lewe A

of Rations by tha Bew York i"u'orld*s Pair ,

I'emit; Be, In that connection, t a say a ward rcg~arding the

Leaguete participation in the Fair. The League had never

attempted anything like this before3 it entered uson it with a

certain hss i tat iou. the

results. We have appreuiated the friendly relations which have

existed rgth the authositiers a8 we51 aa ths interssf mmifsste~d

by over a, aillion Americtiln oitisans who b v e pasrsad through our

PtuSlBing 3Ln the paat 8- months.

A s%r%king proof of thfa Saterest is the aponbneaue offer

of some herOean friends t a make possible the kecpiaep open o f Whe

pavilion next year, Tie welome thf s gmsrsus gesture# let as,

with couraget confideaoe s~na faith in maakinh, gfve each athex

rsludeaveus in yo- buflding next year in the hope of alil~cmst@neea

more &in t o the syirit of the League and the idsala of humajrity,

of the Ssc~stsry-Gsnera3, opmn%n@ the Leagusts i.sLv%lien 8-

mon.ths Ihe worlrb r a l s r even, then be&@* with &ead Lest

keno1 askled you t o look upon the League k'a~ilien as a mark uf

fafth in the u 2 t b a t e es.tablb.btuaent of pwce fu l collaboration

s3noag the aa.t;lonlls t

tfgs on? ~ n d %ha% beiw sol 1st ue not pernit the League 1t3

@perish, even fhougb it wtandanaid ruin. The graver the

"world sifu~tion, the greater w i l l bo the need fox it, 1%

*'sill be upyheld by our faith and our taork."

I t is a rare griviLcge aud ap2ortunity that has besn offered

t o ms t o speak to America from Gcnsva, Svit%erlan&, on thia day

Beiiicated, at the %ew Yosk Vorld*~ Fair, to the League o f Batfons,

t o ~rouwho are @thexed at the Court of Yeam?, on the %As

Grounds *

Pro5 over here, ia the heart of Xurope, America- eec9ma s low way off1 W5th the guns thundiering along many front$ien*s, with

even eeutmxl countries like SwSt;zttr lsnd haviag 1 ~ : of their entirr

yopnlat&sn beax5ng am^, peace takes an a new aimifi~w~ce*

Zt is because we have erperieneed w h a t wear - at least t o

a cSviP populatfon - %a Uks, that we wcPcorns tliis oyportunitp

t o Sjapsess upon you, at hme, how fort;unate, you are not t o be

faoeti with the terrible consequences tbt today cenfPant Eusope,

The people of the United S t a t e s ashauld tbank God that we arts still

at peaae # ~ d we ehouPd pray fervently t b t we may not be dram

inlte the ~onf'l iat. Xn a f e w sumenfar you w i l l h % a ~ the vobcab of

Irlfi., Sean Leeter, Deyuty Secsefary-Ganera'J, of Lhs League of

wbboh, $as@ite the reverses i.t ha8 suffered, still @%&ads as a

beacon light fn an o therwi~e darkening worl4r

Created largely through the efforts of %he distir?Efuilsheh

k*gaeriaeul, Wtti0odxow Zilson, *he League t o b y r@y?rrzrssntr?, the on12

serious effort of c iv i l i sad wttions t o organfse a yeacehl world.

Today, X waxit t o j o l n wi th yon ~aho are gathered at the World% 3

Fcais rLn paying honiage t a er great Snstitution*

expeefa t o be with us in 1940, 1 aa advised %?&at the cc)mpet@nt

skuthorStiea wS11 recommend t o the Az"iacemb1y qhich negts early in

The League ~ a v i l i o n , f amr sure, ~$13, be even more popular

5n P940than it has been in She yasf year, X f ? ~ % L l b e a shrine

t o be visited by a13 those who Pook forward t o the day when

cZvilise4 peosle w i l l hasmar their sworda into ylou~h sharee and

war or911 be banished from this earth*

25th Oetober, 3353

Have Just heard fron W;oxtalshed an return from Ireland, flu%%

Dorothy &1~g, after all, yaased her Trinity i3ntrance in -tin

and ha8 begcur College, Am very pleased,

A letZIes frosa ratsy has twelve terrible ayelling mistakes.

But she wrStie2s with an b y t s h vivacity.

Cre5aer has been promoted as Cauleiter, st toanan.

W t ~ ~ k h a r d t , talking with ms today, saya he (c.) had refused t o

take part in the kicking-out casenony, 8. wrote t o him fron

Kamas, 1st e forsnsl protest, 2ndly, oozataendkng t o his care

Beier and Laemer, B d heard he had brought Beier t o kosnm

tknd given him rr nice l i t t l e 3ab. Glad t o hear of It, Poor

G ~ ~ + ? & S @ F had son@ heart, after all, B. says he broke down in

tears at $heir S a s t psiwte talk - O V ~ T GBXI I~BRY*~ position.