This file contains correspondence with General Baratoff, President of the Fédération des Invalides Mutilés de Guerre Russses à l'Etranger [Federation General of Russian War Disabled], several brochures and financial documents of the Federation, including the estimations of its budget for 1931.
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].
File mainly contains correspondence with various organisations (Mennonite Central Committee, ICRC) and with A. Loonis (Nansen Office Honorary Representative in China), as well as some press clippings concerning the situation of Russian Refugees in China.
This file contains correspondence with the Delegate in Shanghai, Mr. H. Cuénod, and from Russian organisations with contacts in Geneva, regarding the situation of refugees in Shanghai in case of an evacuation further to Chinese civil war.
This file contains correspondence with the Delegate in Shanghai, Mr. H.Cuénod, and from Mr. Oudendyk, the Dean of the Diplomatic Body in Peking, as well as statistics of Russian refugees in this city. The Shanghai delegate is in touch with Russian organisations and individuals, amongst which, Union of Russian associations, Mr. Malinovsky, and General Horvath. Also includes a list of member organisations of Union de l'Emigration en Extrême Orient [Oudendjik].
This file contains correspondence between the Russian Refugee Service and its delegations: H. Reymond, Austria and Hungary, L.S. Childs, Belgrade, Charpentier (successor of Childs) on the subject of the ILO's recruitment of Russian refugee workers via an intermediary, the Bureau atlantique, as per some press cuttings. References are made to articles in L'Humanité and Russian press, DNI, edited by Kerensky in Paris.
This file contains correspondence regarding the measures taken by France to act upon the resolutions adopted by the Council on 25 Mar. 1922, its adhesion to the identity certificates system on 4 Sept. 1922 and enforcement of adhesion as of 1 Jan. 1923. It includes correspondence with other delegations regarding subsequent obstacles encountered in the delivery of visas by French diplomatic representations. It appears that the Russian organisations play an important role in the recommendations for visa issuance by French Consuls. A press clipping raises the issue of consequences on Russian emigration of "de jure" recognition by France of the Soviet government.
This file concerns an expulsion order given to six persons with residency/asylum permits but without accusations or motives. The Russian organisation, Comité Russe de Secours aux Réfugiés en Pologne, notifies the Polish Delegation of the HCR.
It contains file 45/20773/15833, correspondence from the Département fédéral de Justice et Police and the Département Politique fédéral, sample of the identity certificates delivered by the Swiss government, press clippings (Schweizerische Republikanische Blätter), regarding transit visas and the decision of adhesion notified 20 Oct. 1922 and enforced 1 Jan. 1923.
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.