A telegram to Lovsd%y announces an FmSnent d&marche froa the
B r i t i ~ hGover.nmen.f;t o f i ~ e n %a
~ l send as many p ? ~ g of
h the teahioap],
Sactiona to berirsrt
as; prso8ble;
no news b:y e t beon received
the Office about t h i s ,
Da HtElLer sesfbpied thres dayn a g o ,
His resignation bad besa
reFusoO yreviausly, but was now accepted by Avenol.
27th July, 1940
Avensl
- according t o Charron - i a extreaelr indignant t b t
.the town _fsf u l l of reports that he was tJ&rep%ring
t o sell the
Leagues
tbat he ha8 sent h r c k h a r d t to Besllza and Stopgsuri t o Boaam.
I remarked that I had not heard the Buxckhrdt reyurt, but Bow
could Aveaol be raueh eurpriaed in v5ew of hi@ sudden change of
opinion so widely exgressetd m4 Batvling made r
a
w p~o-Cerman and
Italian deolantioas and such & l e n t l j
ant%-British ones.
Charroa telle me very confidentially Lbat the teLeg,~agtof
~ersipe~tius
eent by Avenol =a
atuch %ragrove&
by the elb12natioa of
r good deal o f bf tter reproache@, %to.,
suggaation,
perso~talstuff
- on his
The F%za&l soyort however, to write which Avenol
hsa
retired t o La i - e l o u ~ e +lf31ving fa8 in cbrge in the i n t s r h , promises
t o be
interestixy: document.
O B ~hopes it w i l l also be a u s a f i l
098,
He at f3.raf uontaaglatea derying Pichyr
even sgoke of Swiss
natural.isatfon.
Avenol, I heard, has given may on the question o f ay taking
charge w h n he p e a ;
there 11s a loag % ~ ~ s nbetween
ls
hiw and
Jacklin wbo eoapletelp n t h e e d t o work w i d e r or irith ;~ghidsa, h+
f o r the aoncosaioas he gave, Avonol yercists in claiffiing the
Chainaantship o f rt a2acial T r u g t e e Cornittee for Leagw finances,
conslating of three . ersonag
an Arenol nominee
one w.ou2d b e , 3i;cklizi and the other
- (so that J a c k l i n could be out-voted
say rorsnt).
For this parart Aveaof would take a aoz~iaal24.OCXl P3l-ca
a yew
(in addition t o his ycnsion), have the r i g h t t o
La iolouse
l i i ~ eet
with all the facilities of ugkssy and, of course, have &L1 h i s
diplomest5c 5nmunitf e s ,
X
OS
djeifrritely s g a i n c t tbiw orretrrgem.a~t+
f f one c;uuld rerasonab2y dcyend upon him, it would be pIoa5bp~nt
enough f a be able to give him a11 these comforts, together with the
authority he would bold over L~egueZ i ~ a c c s ,but I am afraid.
The
arguments fcrs t h i s Coguaittse, accorQing to a report of w h a t J a c k l i a
sags (sat directly) 3s t o coaatituts the main i.'ropostlX of h i s report
to
%Be Sugeslri~eryGommfttss next ~on2fr.
3% Ss
mid, QP tB+
very best authoritg, thst he ccrntinzueslr t o t r y 50 get JacklSn t o
leave
F f ? l e e ~ sfrom 'Eambro t o Bvenol this maming:
expressed his
great ednQration and im&lorod h i m not t o resign as it %ouldm e a n %he
destruction of the League, e t c *
Xt would seen; peculiar t o B't~enol,
but roy first reacZion was of aome & l e a w eknowfng the gratiffwtion
w i t h whfch Avenol would receive it;
'th3a.lnspite of the fact t b t
Aveasl Bad been violently anti-Harobro fiSace tkte 10th of June omd
has doge everything poarpible t o avoid c ~ n w a l t i n gM.a, although
&eaident
of %he Ass~mblyand or the Supervisory Ccmn~ittee.
second reflecfiosl was$ w h a t e y i t y Bambro cPld not kaow whaf m e
going:
on end that the peoyle in the F.0,
infsming b h .
The third reflsctiont
had been very lax in not
if this aesns &mb~o'e
real oginion, I shall f e e l cwpletely exonerafed fxors the duty af
stayhg, no matter w h a t the Britiah or otheret ~95ghtthink, as
slthough I may doubt Etambrogs discretion and impulsiveness, he ZPas
re2xosented t o as one of the most honerst and courageous sleaants
(rtsa;iouSa.ted ~ i t hthe League.
Thia huge d i d not last long,
Befweslr
sending the telegrews on Friday and raogie tSme on SBturdiag morning,
%inan%saw W b r o is the United S t a t e s *
khelaa givAag him fnetructions
%t;o
yeokle, no Belay, ruad %bat %t was
teleshona8 t o
"diiffixtt
arof~.cba% oxroe with his Croup A
8n
AiapmaLit~eBscieSan, t b t he
knew r x X l the situa%Pon an& arguments* e t c .
This m s PeZlored by
a tslepan in which the words nclasfng inmwere used*
IIs eafd h+
had seen E a b r o and that B8mbro .'also rantsd Eardo. Jacklin and
ntgsielf t o go
at once to the United States,
1% seems to me as
though Ihmbro regretted B%s hasty and generous telegrtyi t o A'trer~oE
and one gets the %mpreaaai~n
he think8 of trying to hold o met*
in hierica where deaf eiona would be trzken,
It i a t o f aoarrrre, ~xaZta
impossible far rae t o go i n &resent circurnstrtnces,
ft f aoks ar
though Tinant wag afraid of the 3#anisfi-i'ortuf;ueae c o a s t being
Amongst Cha t h i a g a ho aaid ta h h ware that the w w l d was now
d i v i d e d i n t o fuur r l i v i a i o n s : i;uro#e (ur~drr Cenarrn control), Bussia,
Japan and Amsrloa,
,PQF
:ir;uxu:~e
one must mt
loagcr %h%&
ebo~t
h S ~ n t & e x ~ tthat o o u ~ t r i e s( p r e s ~ ~ 6 ~ b
& lw
y e ) BUS% dewtat t h tw1ves t s their language, tradition an& cultura;
a t *%l faut
that ths League of Nai;iuns would be ast up in Europe under
tbt Germmy and ftaPy would dictate the
aruapicest
Cemvrjir
Oils-
!:pe&~
at
s
he was gofng because he did not wish t o be here t o reocaiw,
the order@ from Derzparry and Italy8
--
B e r e w i t h the cutting from le ~ e t P t(P----------
Stoclrhola,
W Juillat.
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1
fU-2
D9Bpree un journal aae'dois, Le
(Daily E a i l j, apprend que P. Arsnol, 8 d ~ t a i r egenanrl de lo S.DII1.,
a ddaissionn6 sur la deaande du rainletre des Affaires &trmgBlra
Ixangais E. Baudefn,
Celui-ai lui avait f a i t savoir que la Rrawe
plus pour Icngte~psnembrc de la S .D.%
se rendlt
s\
Vlc)V.
., i
ntr se
con~i&zrft
la suite de puoi, Li; Amgo3,