Agreement of 30 June 1928 concerning the functions of the High Commissioner for Refugees: Denunciation by the French Government
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.
Reply of the Government of France to the Circular Letter C.L.120.1935.XII of 30 July 1935 relative to the question of the extension of the Nansen Passport system to refugees from the Saar.
P. Roland-Marcel, Conseiller d'Etat, ancien Préfet du Bas-Rhin, Commissaire général au tourisme, Ministère des Travaux publics (Paris) agreed to participate in the work of the Committee of Experts.
Regarding the situation of Spanish refugees in France.
Correspondence between the French Government, the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Herbert Emerson, and the League of Nations (on behalf of S. Lester, Secretary-General of the League of Nations).
File contains League of Nations document C.A.I.R.47 of 20 November 1935 "Committee for International Assistance to Refugees - Communication from the French Government".
Note on the Position of Affairs in Detention by the Greek Government of the Japanese Vessel "Heimei maru" with Turkish Prisoners of War and Refugees on Board.