Robert Dell to W. P. Crozier.
Location: Geneva.
As things are quiet at the moment he proposes taking a holiday, including a visit to England; he gives his Berkshire address. Del Vayo has invited him to go to Spain in mid February with Vernon Bartlett; he may go later. He updates him regarding his recent activities, referring to the Association, and the matter of [Signor Carlo] a Prato, for whom he thinks permission will be given to travel to Geneva to work. The Geneva Fascists regularly call for his [Dell] expulsion, and that of other foreign correspondents.
Another Montreux Conference is due to begin in April, regarding the Egyptian capitulations; there is talk of holding a special Assembly the same month in order to admit Egypt into the League and expel Ethiopia. The bureau of the disarmament conference will meet on 6 May; Hitler yesterday refused to accept armaments control. The Council session will commence on 24 May. Woodward can forward anything important whilst he is away; the agencies can deal with the other matters. An alternative would be Miss Kirkpatrick, who has taken John Whitaker's place for the New York Herald-Tribune. He will travel to Manchester to see him, if he wishes.
Some of the Moscow trial evidence has shocked him; he has had verbatim reports from Russian papers translated. The Moscow correspondents say little. He talks at length on the subject of the trial, referring to Sokolnikov and Trotzky's suspected intrigues with Germany.