Hitler's Bombshell created consternation in Europe, follow-up of Hitler's announcement, reactions of France, Great-Britain and Poland, France has appealed to the Council of the League of Nations.

Announcement by Hitler of re-occupation of demilitarized zone and of readiness to replace Locarno Pact by non-agression-pacts with France and Belgium, and to make pact with Lithuania regarding Poland's access to the sea.

"Report of the High Commission for Refugees by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen on the Work Presented to the Fourth Assembly" concerning the work on behalf of Russian, Turkish, Greek, Jewish, Armenian refugees, Bulgarian deportees from Western Thrace accomplished by his office since previous Assembly; related documents.

Correspondence with Ms Puech, member of a Protestant Committee in Paris, proposing sending Russian children to French families.

Miscellaneous correspondence.

This file contains correspondence, minute sheets and notes on the subject of collaboration between the Union of Zemstvos and Russian Towns and the ILO for travel documents for refugees. There are also statutes of the Committee and a list of its members, newsletters. Communication is between the Committee and the French labour ministry as well as the Paris branch office of the ILO.

File contains:

• the instruments of ratification of the Convention on International Status of Refugees
• correspondence of 1934 and 1936 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris
• a letter of 20 November 1942 from the Provisional Government of the French Republic in Vichy denunciating this Convention with the exception of articles one and two and of chapter XI
• letters dated 8 November 1944 from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Georges Bidault to Herbert Emerson, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to S. Lester, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, cancelling the denunciations made by the Provisional French Government in Vichy of the Agreement of 30 June 1928 as well as of the Convention of 28 October 1933, and restoring the status quo ante for Nansen Refugees, and explaining the desire of the French Government to extend similar system to Spanish Republican refugees.