Newspaper clipping from various Russian émigrés newspapers such as "Rul'", "Golos Rossii"; articles from "Prague newspaper" (extract of a speech of Mr. Benesh); Soviet newspaper "Izvestiia" on the life of Russian and Jewish refugees abroad, League of Nations and these refugees.

Various correspondence regarding:

• the collection of clothing in Great Britain;
• the interest taken in this question by Queen Alexandra, who has made a personal donation;
• the special appeal made by the All British appeal Committee in all the leading newspapers for the relief of the famine in Russia and distress in the Near East;
• two press cuttings.

Various correspondence regarding:

• the clothing appeal in Great Britain on behalf of the Asia Minor refugees;
• the expenses incurred in shipment of clothing.

Miscellaneous correspondence.

File contains:

• the instrument of accession of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Convention relating to the international status of Refugees
• a League of Nations document C.L.79.1940.XII relating to the application to certain British Overseas Territories of this Convention on the International Status of Refugees, as well as of the Convention concerning the Status of Refugees coming from Germany signed at Geneva on 10 February 1938, as modified by the Additional Protocol of the 14 September 1939.