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C1532/428/20A/80202/19016 · File · 1930-1938
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

File contains correspondence concerning contributions from individuals, private institutions; and lists of contributions received or pledged.

Documents:
C.A.24.1931 - Governing Body 3rd Session Nansen Memorial Fund

Press clipping:
"The Times" dated 31 August 1932 on "Russian Refugees in China"
"Bergens Aftenblad" dated 18 May 1937 on "Herr redaktor - Den statslose"

C1532/428/20A/19222/19016/Jacket1 · File · 1929-1931
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

File contains correspondence on the drafting and distribution of the appeal. National Committees were formed in Denmark and Norway for raising money for the Fund in those countries. The appeal document which entitled "Appeal for a Memorial Fund for the Completion of the Humanitarian Work of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen" or the "Nansen Memorial Fund" was signed by H. E. M. Aristide Briand, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic; The Rt. Hon. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, K.C.; H.E. Dr. Julius Curtius, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Reich; H.E. Signor D. Grandi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy; The Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, P.C. M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; H.E. Dr. T. G. Masaryk, President of the Czechoslovak Republic; H.E. M. Joh. Ludw. Mowinckel, former Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway; H.E. M. E. Venizelos, President of the Council of Ministers of Greece.

Draft document:
C.A.24.1931 - Governing Body 3rd Session - Nansen Memorial Fund
"Appel du Dr. Fidtjof Nansen - Haut-Commissaire de la Société des Nations pour les Réfugiés pour l'obtention des fonds nécessités par la liquidation de la partie matérielle du problème des réfugiés russes, arméniens, assyriens, assyro-chaldéens et turcs"
C.300.M.141.1931 - 13 May 1931 - Note by the Secretary-General (English and French) - Lettre émanant de M. Max Huber, Président du Conseil d'administration de l'Office international nansen pour les Réfugiés

Press clippings:
"Manchester Guardian " dated 22 May 1930 on " Nansen and Armenia - An Obligation that Remains"
"New York Times" dated 14 May 1931 on "The Refugees' Best Friend"
"New York Times" dated 13 May 1931 on "8 Statesmen appeal for Nansen Memorial - Henderson, Briand, Curtius and others seek fund to care for refugees"
"Deutsche Allgemeine Zeit - Abend Aus Berlin" dated 15 March 1931 on "Ein "Nansen-Fonds" zur bie Fluchlings in Europa und asien?"
"The Way of the World - No. 110" - dated 15 May 1931
"Jewish Telegraphic Agency" dated 11 May 1931 on "Nansen Memorial Fund: Appeal issued by League of Nations Council for Completion of Dr. Nansen's Humanitarian Work"
Various newspaper cuttings from Budapest

C1533bis/429/20A/80694/19093 · File · 1934-1937
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

File contains correspondence relating to the request from the French Government to second the service of Mr. G. Burnier, LON Representative in Syria, to assist in the negotiation between the French and the Iraqi Governments for the transfer to Syria Assyrian families in Iraq; installation of Assyrian-Chaldean refugees in Syria along the river Kabbour; map of the course of river Kabbour (Kabour); progress reports on the settlement.

Documents:
C./Min.Ass./59. - 3 September 1934 - Etablissement des Assyriens de l'Irak (English and French)
C./Min.Ass./61. - 7 September 1934 - Settlement of the Assyrians of Iraq (English and French)
C./Min.Ass./69. - 2 October 1934 - Settlement of the Assyrians of Iraq (English and French)
C./Min.Ass./199 - 7 April 1936 - Lettre du Gouvernement de l'Irak faisant connaître les résultats donnés jusqu'à ce jour par la consultation des Assyriens
C./82me session/P.V.5(1) - 28 September 1934 - Procès-verba (English and French)
J.C.-98-1935 - 30 January 1935 - Settlement of the Assyrians in Syria
A.VI./P.V.3.1935 - 17 Septemberr 1935 - 16th Ordinary Session of the Assembly - 6th Committee - Provisional Minutes - 3rd Meeting
A.VI/5/1935 - 18 September 1935 - Statement by the President of the Committee of the Council to the Sixth Committee
A.VI/7/1935 - 19 September 1935 - Draft Report of the Sixth Committee
Press note C.488 - 18 December 1935
C.488.M.262.1935.VII - 16 December 1935 - Report by the Representative of Spain
C.485.M.262.1935.VII - 16 December 1935 - Draft Statutes of the Assyrian Settlement Trustee Board and Draft Declaration to be signed on behalf of the French Republic for the Levant States under French Mandate

Press Clippings:
"La Tribune de Genève" dated 18 January 1935 on "Pour la justice internationale"
"Liberté" dated 21 December 1934 on "L'installation des réfugiés en Syrie et au Liban"
"Bourse égyptienne" dated 26 December 1934 on "La S.D.N. contre le fisc"
"[?] égyptienne" dated 21 December 1934 on "La S.D.N. se préoccupe des Assyriens réfugiés en Syrie"

C1533/429/20A/80617/19093 · File · 1933-1934
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

File contains correspondence, documentation and press clippings relating to the transfer of about 10,000 Assyrians from Iraq to South America (mainly at the "Parana Plantations" in Brazil). It also contains: resumé of negotiations in Paris and London between 2 and 12 November concerning the transport of 10,000 Assyrians from Iraq to Brazil, their settlement in that country, and the possibility of financing the operation; extracts from a letter dated 20 October 1933 from Mr. A.H.M. Thomas, Managing Director of Cis. de Terras Norte do Parana; translation of printed contract of "Compromisso de compra e venda" (Agreement to buy and sell) used by the Cia. de terras norte do Parana in cases of land sales payable in instalments; note by the Secretary-General of the Nansen International Office for Refugees on the proposed settlement of 10,000 Assyrians in North Parana; extract from letter from General the Honorable Arthur M. Asquith, D.S., Chairman of Parana Plantations Ltd., dated 13 November 1933, in which he offers, under certain conditions, to reduce the cost of feeding the Assyrians in Brazil quoted in the record of conversations; record of conversations with General the Honble. Arthur M. Asquith, D.S.O., Chairman of Parana Plantations Ltd. between 2 and 7 November 1933, concerning the proposed settlement of 10,000 Assyrians on the lands of the company in North Parana; note on "A Consideration of the Problem of Moving the Assyrians".

Documents:
C./Min.Ass./8 - 30 October 1933 - Establissement des Assyriens de l'Irak - Résolution adoptée par le Comité dans sa séance du 28 octobre 1933
C./Min.Ass./13 - 18 November 1933 - Settlement of the Assyrians of Iraq - Record of Conversations with General the Honble. Arthur M. Asquith, D.S.O., Chairman of Parana Plantations Ltd. between 2 and 7 November 1933, concerning the proposed settlement of 10,000 Assyrians on the lands of the company in North Parana
C./Min.Ass./11 - 15 November 1933 - Resolution adopted by the Committee on 31 October 1933
C./Min.Ass./71 - 1 October 1934 - Etablissement des Assyriens de l'Irak - Lettre adressée le 28 septembre 1934 par le Président du Comité pour l'établissement des Assyriens de l'Irak au Chef de la délégation permanente de l'Irak auprès de la Société des Nations (English and French)

Other documents:
"Note on North Parana" published by Authority of Parana Plantations Ltd. 1930
"Royal Mail for the Guidance of Foreign Offices and Agencies - Passport and Immigration Regulations as affecting Second, Intermediate and Third Class Passengers to Brazil" dated 1 January 1933
"Decree N.4.247 of 6 January 1921 - Regulating the entrance of foreigners in the national territory" "Decree N.16.761 of 31 December 1924 - Forbids the entrance in the national territory of immigrants in the cases and conditions foreseen in the art. lst and 2nd of the law N.4.247 of 6 January 1921" Ministerio da Agricultura, Industria e Commercio - Rio de Janeiro 1925

Press clipping:
Résumé of article in "A Noite" of 2 November 1933 on "10,000 Assyrians for Brazil - Examination by the Ministry of Labour of the proposal of the League of Nations - A Plan of Immigration and Colonisation from Minister Salgado Filho - Declarations of Mr. Afonso Bandeiro de Mello

C1518/414/20A/23916/17460 · File · 1930-1931
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

Subject of the file: Securing employment for refugees for the construction of the pipe-line. Includes notes exchanged with the Information and Mandates Section and Armenian, English, French and German language press (London, Geneva, Paris, New York) cuttings as well as an excerpt of the Official Gazette (Palestine) with the Convention concluded between the Irak Petroleum Company and the British High Commissioner for the Palestine, article XI concerned employment of workers.

C1528bis/425/20A/17530/17528/Jacket2 · File · 1930-1932
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

File contains periodic expense statements, statistics, listings of patients from the Old Organisation of the Russian Red Cross and the American Society for Relief of Russian Exiles, Inc.; collection of information concerning tubercular refugees, information and brochure concerning tuberculosis sanatorium, explanatory note concerning the creation and the operation of the Fund from the Old Organisation of the Russian Red Cross.

Includes "First Annual Report 1929-1930 - American Society for Relief of Russian Exiles, Inc." and a brochure on "The General Direction of the Old Organisation of the Russian Red Cross - Relief of the Russian Refugees Abroad".

Documents:
F.C.30-1931: "Commission des finances le 12 octobre 1931 - Demande d'avances présentées par les differentes institutions de réfugiés russes - Demande d'avance de la Croix-rouge en faveur de ses différentes institutions"
M.c.4-1932: "Extraordinary Meeting of the Managing Committee and Finance Commission dated 6 February 1932 - Application by the Russian Red Cross for a loan of Sw.Fr.12.000 for the Paulhaguet Sanitorium" [Sanatorium in France].