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S542/1 · Series · 1930.03-1930.11
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

The reorganisation of the refugee work was initiated following the decisions taken during the 10th Assembly to wind up the refugee organisation within 10 years. The file contains discussions, comments made by Messrs. T. Lodge, I. Kerno, Avenol, Walters on the operation and financial arrangements and the transfer of refugee operations to the League of Nations through the creation of a "International Refugees Office". It also proposed to creat an Executive Council or Committee to oversee the liquidation. It mentioned the nomination of a new High Commissioner following the death of F. Nansen. There was correspondence with other officials of the League, with individual who looked for openings in the new organisation and with an NGO called the "American Society for Relief of Russian Exiles, Inc.", "Joint Foreign Committee of the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association". It also contains the inputs to the draft report of the Secretary-Genera on the future organisation of refugee work and a League document A.34.1930.XIII dated 5 September 1930 on "Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldrean and the Turkish Refugees - Report by the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission attached to the High Commissioner for Refugees".

League of Nations Political Section file (Mr. Kerno)
Document · 1933.02.07
Part of Private Archives

Various documents regarding the appointment of a Deputy-Secretary-General: J. Avenol in favour of P. Azcarate's appointment, J. Avenol's views, E.J. Phelan's position, two secret meetings; Annex A: S. Lester's views on the appointment of a Deputy-Secretary-General, Annex B: J. Avenol's statement at a secret meeting, Annex C: further S. Lester's statement, Annexes D and E: other S. Lester's statements; S. Lester's report to the Department of External Affairs, dated 8th February 1933 on S. Lester's cordial talk with P. Azcarate after his appointment and the reactions to P. Azcarate's appointment, such as the Norwegian objection of having three Latins.

R5622/20A/5634/4110 · File · 1933
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

Report dated 30 August 1933 of the Governing Body of the Nansen International Office for Refugees submitted to the League of Nations thirteenth Assembly in 1932

File including:

  • one copy in English and one copy in French of the League of Nations official document A.19 dated 30 August 1933: "Nansen International Office for Refugees - Report of the Governing Body";
  • two letters dated 15 July 1933 and 21 August 1933 from the Nansen International Office for Refugees addressed to J. Avenol, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, for communication and observations regarding the draft of the Report on the refugee work prepared by the Governing Body to the forthcoming Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations;
  • a document J.C.17-1933 "Report of the Governing Body - Chapter I: Introduction - a) Assembly and Council resolutions b) Modifications of the composition of the Governing Body and of the other organs of the Office c) Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for Refugees, etc. Chapter II: Action on the resolutions adopted by the Assembly at its XIIIth Session - a) Refugee Convention b) Settlement of Armenian Refugees in Syria c) Transfers of Armenian Refugees to the Armenian (Erivan) Republic etc. Chapter III: General activities of the Office - a) Existing state of the refugees problems b) Settlement of the refugees, including tables regarding the "Interventions on behalf of refugees made by the representatives of the Office during the period from July 1st 1932 to May 31st 1933", "Loans granted to organisations from July 1st 1932 to May 15th 1933" and "Refugees settled between July 1st 1932 and May 31st 1933, in the countries where they reside by means of small loans enabling them to become self-supporting - Other assistance by small loans" Chapter IV: Funds administered by the Office and Chapter V: Conclusion regarding "Proposals for the progressive liquidation of the refugee problems", and "Settlement and relief measures";
  • two draft copies (one in English and one in French) of document J.C.17-1933 with annotations;
  • lists of members of the Governing Body, of staff and representatives, of members of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for Refugees, of organisations members of the Advisory Committee of private refugee relief organisations;
  • a report by the President of the Governing Body on his tour in Syria;
  • extracts from the Report of the Representative of the Office in Yugoslavia;
  • and funds regarding the Near East.
Document · 1934.01.04
Part of Private Archives

Streiter, taken into prison, charged with having disclosed official secrets: the famous five-pointed ultimatum delivered to H. Rauschning, but released because no official evidence; a similar case: Berent, one of the principal officials in the Education Department, was charged with high treason; Lochstadt case: a Minority Pole, whose rights were not respected, was also charged with high treason and released; "Arbeitsdienst" decree: every youth had to give a year's labour service, however it was against the Constitution to send him out of Danzig against his will, but the Danzig economic situation made it difficult to provide work for them all.

Document · 1934.01.26
Part of Private Archives

Polish Government's willingness to co-operate with S. Lester in the Danzig business; new relationship between Poland and Danzig; talk between S. Lester and Count Lubienski, in charge at Warsaw with the task of looking after Danzig affairs, who emphasized that the accords so far reached were purely general and political.

Document · 1934.01.30
Part of Private Archives

Interview with Koch, Danish Consul and Doyen of the Consular Corps, on Polish-German Treaty of friendship and H. Rauschning's weakened position vis-à-vis Albert Forster; conversation with Delfin, French Consul General, but not on the political situation in Danzig; interview with Valcke, Belgian Consul General on Polish restrictions on imports; interview with von Radowitz, German Consul General on Polish-German Treaty of friendship, protection of Europe essential in the future as a protection against the Soviet, and on H. Rauschning and A. Foster, S. Lester wanted to get information in case of rupture between these two men; interview with de Lieto, Italian Consul General, on Polish-German Treaty, Danzig-Poland economic situation and the fact that Danzig could not live without Poland.