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Includes note by Layton on his involvement with the Daily News and News Chronicle. 1927-1950.

Geneva, Switzerland. - Is here for the League of Nations Assembly, 'a very amusing entertainment'; is reporting for the Daily Chronicle and has a 'good press gallery seat... & a good view of the Delegates'. Likes 'the South American States, who are numerous and excitable'; mentions a recent 'fierce turn-up' between Chile and Bolivia. The 'Great Powers are calmer, but equally determined not to be done down. France is very jealous of Britain, of course, and is very noisy during the English translations of the speeches, to drown them if possible'. Nansen is here and a 'very popular figure. Also Balfour and [?] R. Cecil'.

Refers to the omission of the importance of Henry Sidgwick's work in relation to psychical research in the 'otherwise admirable memoir' of him. Refers to his own association with Sidgwick, and to the latter's activities in the Society for Psychical Research, of which he was president for the first few years of its existence, 'except for an interval, during which he stepped aside in favour of the late Professor Balfour Stewart'. Concludes that it is due to the character more even thatn to the distinguished intellectual gifts of HS that the society stands now so firmly 'that it can even survive his loss.'