Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's help for Ilse Hellmann before her tribunal, and Hellmann's work as a psychoanalyst; discussions with George Ridley over Labour Party internal politics and the possibility of Mary Agnes Hamilton standing for re-election as an MP; the mood in London before and after war was declared; air-raid warnings and the closing of theatres and cinemas; her writing, including beginning work on her memoirs; her work as an interviewer for the Women's Employment...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly on individual cases of Yugoslav refugees looking for employment, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada, and earlier Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on handing over Yugoslav generals accused of collaboration to the current Government of Yugoslavia, and the repatriation of Yugoslavs who had fought for Germany; Christopher Mayhew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the Yugoslav...

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Papers and correspondence about the British Friendship to Greece Society, and aid sent to Greece, including a memorandum on the refugee situation in Greece. Correspondents include Francis Noel-Baker on the formation of a committee to help Greek refugees (2) and Irene Noel-Baker.

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

Scope and Contents Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...

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Addendum from the Government of Canada.

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Opinion by Charles Fahy [Legal Adviser of the Office of Military Government, United States in Germany] with additional notes, sent to HL by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.

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Opinion by HL for the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, with copies of correspondence from 1945-46 on the status of refugees who had fled Germany and Austria before the war and had lost their nationality. Correspondents include Sir Herbert Emerson [High Commissioner for Refugees, League of Nations].

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Papers concerning Margareta Burkill’s work with German and Austrian refugee children before, during and after the Second World War. The collection includes Burkill’s memoir and some correspondence. There are also notes on the children, including details of their accommodation during the war and their later careers. Also included is material relating to the Cambridge Refugee Committee.

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Possibly Frankfurt.
Including photographs of refugees.

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Correspondence with Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman of the committee, on an article by JA about Greek children taken to communist countries and on speeches by Leo Amery and 1st Lord Layton on settling refugees in Commonwealth countries.

Also includes a proposal from the committee on solutions to the European refugee problem, and minutes of a committee meeting on a mission by American congressmen to report on the refugees in Germany, Austria and Italy.

Scope and Contents The papers relate to the work done by Professor and Mrs Hutton in caring for Jewish, Polish, Czech and other children who were brought to Cambridge from Europe in 1939 as refugees from Nazi persecution and also in attempting to secure release from internment, jobs and educational openings for adult refugees. As well as the case-histories, which comprise the bulk of the collection, are pamphlets, reports and cuttings about the Nazi regime across Europe. There are also first-hand accounts of...

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Correspondence on bringing 38 senior Yugoslav generals exiled in Germany to Britain, with correspondents including: Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, President of the Yugoslav Aid Committee; Fanny Copeland; Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman and Secretary, Refugees Defence Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Council for New Era of Emigration (3); Sir [James] Arthur Salter.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly between LSA and Leonard Green, Chairman of the society, on subjects including LSA becoming President of the society, meetings, funds, criticism by Green of King Peter II of Yugoslavia's dictatorial actions, and winding up the society. Other correspondents include: Katharine, Duchess of Atholl [President of the Yugoslav Aid Committee]; Vane Ivanovic, Chairman of the Benevolent Association of Free Citizens of Yugoslavia (4); [Edward] Hugh Dalton, President of the Board...