This file contains correspondence between the Japan Embassy in Paris (Bureau du Japon à la Société des Nations) and the Secretary-General, Sir Eric Drummond, regarding Japan's adhesion to the Council's resolution on the legal situation and passport issue (13 June 1922), its adhesion to the identity certificates system (25 June 1923) and its enforcement on 1 Feb. 1924 of this system. M. Matsuda is the Head of the Japanese League of Nations Office.
It contains file 45/20336/15833/Jackets 1&2, correspondence on the subject of the Russian refugees in Constantinople and the issuing of identity certificates to them. It is exchanged between the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for refugees, S. Lawford Childs, French and British authorities (Allied High Commissioners) and Turkish authorities as well as with the High Commissioner in Geneva and the Secretary-General.
This file documents the decision of the Turkish government to issue special passports that are in agreement with the identity certificates system adopted by the Inter-governmental conference held at Geneva, July 3rd-5th, 1922, as per circular letter of 29 Jan. 1924. Collective passports are issued by the HCR for group evacuations. It contains correspondence, memoranda and notes, exchanges between the Legal section (Dr. van Hamel) and Major T.F. Johnson of the Refugee Service, between Consuls and the Secretary-General, the delegate S. Lawford Childs and other delegations of the HCR. The question of the status of Armenian and Georgian refugees is raised as well as of new Turkish laws making the collective passport procedure much more lengthy and expensive.
Appears to be an individual case made to the ILO for a Nansen passport.
Correspondence regarding passport request.
File contains:
- League of Nations document C.584.1933 "Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees - Report by the Mexican Representative"
- "Extract from Minutes of the Third Meeting of the 77th Session of the Council, 12 October 1933 - Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees: resolution adopted by the Assembly on 7 October 1933".
File contains:
- League of Nations document C.14.1935.XII of 4 January 1935 "Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees - Communication to the States members of the League of Nations of the decisions adopted by the Fifteenth Assembly - Report of the Representative of Mexico"
- various correspondence.