Papers and correspondence on the appeal for Assyrians living in Iraq, chaired by LSA, with correspondents including: George Rendel [Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office] on the background to the situation; 1st Lord Noel-Buxton, President of the Save the Children Fund, on helping the appeal (2); Alan Don [Chaplain and Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury] (10); [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on the possibility of returning the Assyrians to Turkey or Syria, the results of the emancipation treaty between France and Syria, the Government's contribution to a settlement and the future of the Patriarch, Mar Shimun and his family (6); William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on the possibility of settling the Assyrians in Cyprus or Nyasaland [later Malawi] (4); Cosmo Lang [President of the appeal, Archbishop of Canterbury]; 1st Lord Lugard, suggesting that the Assyrians might return to Syria; Lord Cranborne [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury]; George Gracey, General Secretary of the Save the Children Fund and secretary of the appeal (9); Robert Buxton, Director of Martin’s Bank Limited (2); Francis Walters [Deputy-Secretary-General of the League of Nations].

Also includes: Foreign Office memoranda on the Assyrians; pamphlets on the appeal, including an address by Cosmo Lang, in launching the appeal; League of Nations report on the settlement of the Assyrians; article by Hugh Champion de Crespigny on the Assyrian cause.