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Drummond, Sir James Eric, 16th Earl of Perth (born 17.08.1876, North Yorkshire - 15.12.1951), British Empire.

Drummond was the son of an old Scottish aristocratic family.
He was educated at Eton.

British diplomat and politician, Drummond was the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations (1919-33).

Career:

• 1900-1917 Member, British Foreign Office;
• 1919-1933 Secretary-General, League of Nations;
• 1933-1939 Ambassador to Rome;
• After 1939 Liberal politician.

Drummond entered the British Foreign Office in 1900. In 1906, he became private secretary to Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, the parliamentary undersecretary in the Foreign Office. In 1908 and again from 1010 to 1911, he was private secretary to Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, as well as to Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1912 to 1915. As private secretary (1915-1919) to Arthur J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Drummond accompanied the latter on his trip to the United States in 1917, and in 1918-1919, he was attached to the British delegation to the Peace Conference, where his knowledge of procedure and his grasp of detail won him a high reputation. After the names of various better-known political personalities had been proposed and then dropped, it was Drummond, the career civil servant, who was chosen as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations.

Alongside with his broad activities on the international level, internal administrative matters occupied much of Drummond's time, especially those related to the budget, to plans for the new headquarters, building, committees and commissions. He generally supported staff members in their work, and, thus, established the groundwork for the concept of an international civil service which has been maintained by the United Nations.

In 1933, Drummond resigned as Secretary-General and became ambassador to Rome, Italy (1933-39). He succeeded to the Earldom of Perth in 1937 upon his father's death and entered the House of Lords.

In 1939, Drummond returned to Britain and following the outbreak of the Second World War he accepted the post of Chief Advisor on Foreign Publicity at the Ministry of Information (1939-40).

He was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1947 until his death in 1951.

The International Association of Journalists Accredited to the League of Nations, founded in 1921, was still active in January 1940. Only journalists working for daily newspapers or agencies and broadcasters were admitted.

Pelt, Adrianus was born in 1892 in Netherlands and died in 1981 in Switzerland.

He began his career in 1909 as an international journalist. He joined the League of Nations in 1920 as a member of the Information Section of the Secretariat. Within this section, between 1920 and 1940, he was the director of the Press Section to the Delegation of the League of Nations for the reconstruction of Austria in Vienna staff member of the former mayor of Rotterdam AR. Zimmerman.
He has led several international missions as evidenced by the documents of the fonds.

In 1934, he became the Director of the Information Section. Knowledge of information technologies have allowed him to be involved in the creation of a press office in The Hague May 10, 1940, he left Geneva to provide services to the Dutch government.

In 1939, A. Pelt was Commissioner-General at Geneva (cf. S. Lester's Diary p. 368).

During the war, he led the Dutch government information service in London.

He represented his country as a member of the Dutch delegation to the Preparatory UN conference in San Francisco in 1945. He joined the United Nations in 1946 and was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations Department of Conference and General Services. He was in charge of the transfer of the only files of the League of Nations archives pertaining to the transferable activities and functions of the United Nations. For the transfer of certain files from the Archives of the League of Nations (Registry) to the United Nations, A. Pelt worked in cooperation with W. Moderow, Director, representing the Secretary-General of the United Nations and A. Sobolev, Assistant Secretary-General in charge of Security Council Affairs Department. M. Moderow took up the question of placing the inactive files of the League of Nations Registry with the Library.

In 1949, he represented the United Nations Commissioner in Libya. His mission was to form a new state from Cyrenaica, the Tipolitania and Fezzan (former Italian colonies). Then he had a mission to help libyiens to build a united government and choose a constitution. It was a success and he received the nickname viceroy of Libya.
From April 1952 to December 1957, he was the Director of the European Office of the United Nations (UNEO). In this fonds, we don't find any documents about this activity.
After his retirement, he still has long used his diplomatic skills, including as General Secretary of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.
He also worked for the Nederlandse Hartstichting Foundation and has served on the board of the internation Heart Institute in Geneva.

He is the author of a book on the decolonization of Libya: "Libyan independence and the united Nations; a case of planned decolonization, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1970.

Hostie, Jan-Frans, born on 29 January 1884 in Ghent, Belgium.

Career:

• Barrister at Brussels and Anvers Courts of Justice;
• Legal adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Belgium;
• Director at the Marine Administration;
• Secretary-General of the Central Commission for the Rhine navigation;
• Director of the Communications Section, Ministry for Foreign Affairs;
• Delegate at the Peace Conference;
• Delegate at the Port Commission;
• Member of the Communication Section of the Economic Supreme Council;
• Deputy delegate at the Belgian-Dutch 1920 negotiations;
• Deputy delegate at the Danube Conference;
• Delegate for the Anglo-Belgian negotiations about free zones in the Tanganyika Territory;
• Member of the Commission for the freedom of communications and transit;
• Member of the Communication and transit provisionary Committee of the League of Nations, of which he was the representative at the Barcelona Conference;
• Since 1924 Member of the permanent Judicial Committee of the League of Nations Communication and Transit Organization;
• He presided over the Enquiry Commission about the Oder river;
• He participated in the Expert Committee on the dispute about the Polish postal service at Danzig;
• Member of the Special Committee on the Polish Direction of the railways in Danzig;
• He was Belgium Commissioner at the Rhine and Elbe River Commissions;
• From 1921 to 1937, he was Secretary general of the Rhine navigation Central Commission;
• In 1929 and 1932, he taught at the International Law Academy;
• He collaborated to the Digest of International Law and the Revue de droit international et de législation comparée;
• Member of the American Society of International Law.