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[Communicated to the Council
and the Members of the League.]
Official No.: O. 2a ^la 2» 1936. XII.
Geneva, January 3rd, 1936.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE
TO REFUGEES
REPORT RY THE COMMITTEE
SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Summary.
Page
Introduction 2
Part I: Various Aspects of the Problem 3
Part II: Conclusions 8
Part III: Proposals:
(1) Temporary Measures 9
(2) Subsequent Organisation 10
Annexes:
1. Reports on the Organisation and Operation of the Official Bodies 12
2. List of Private Relief Organisations and Refugee Groups which have submitted
a Report to the Committee 13
3. Budget for 1934 of the Nansen Office for Refugees 14
4. Special Survey by M. Michael Hansson of the Principal Legal Aspects of the
Refugee Question at the Present Time 15
In virtue of the Assembly’s decision of September 28th, 1935, based on the report of its
Sixth Committee,1 the Committee on Assistance to Refugees met at Geneva on November 28th.
In accordance with the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations, the Committee
was composed as follows:
M. Michael Hansson (Norway), former President of the Mixed Court of Appeal of Egypt,
Norwegian Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Member
of the Roumano-Hungarian Mixed Arbitral Tribunal;
His Excellency M. G. de Michelis, Senator, Italian Ambassador, former Commissioner-
General of Emigration;
His Excellency M. Stefan Osusky, Czechoslovak Minister at Paris, Chairman of the
Supervisory Commission of the League of Nations;
M. P. Roland-Marcel, Councillor of State, former Prefect of Bas-Rhin (France);
The Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., former Ambassador.
1 Report adopted by the Assembly.
(1) The Sixth Committee has examined the question of international assistance to refugees referred to the Assembly
by the Norwegian Government.
(2) It noted, first, that the Assembly has contemplated arrangements for the winding-up of the Nansen Interna¬
tional Office within a specified time-limit and according to definite budgetary rules.
(3) It considers that the League of Nations has already done useful work in the matter of assistance to refugees,
but realises the great complexity of the refugee problem, which has political, legal, humanitarian, administrative and
financial aspects, and which requires further examination within the limits of the existing decisions of the Assembly.
(4) It considers that, subject to any future decisions, this examination should be limited, for political and financial
reasons, to the categories of refugees already under the Nansen Office and the High Commissariat in London.
(5) The Sixth Committee also considers that no new additional expenditure should be incurred without explicit
permission from the Assembly.
(6) Having regard to the foregoing considerations, the Sixth Committee proposes that the Assembly should ask
the Council to appoint a small committee of competent persons to report to it on the above-mentioned question. The
committee should collect all useful evidence, particularly that of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for
Refugees. Once in possession of this report, the Council will be able to take any measures that it may think desirable,
even before the meeting of the ordinary Assembly in 1936, to which, however, the question will have to be submitted.
(7) In order to enable the above-mentioned committee to be set up, the Assembly leaves it to the Council to
appropriate a sum of 5,500 Swiss francs from the budgetary allocation of the current financial year.
S.d.N. 1.500 (F.) 1.150 (A.). 1/36. Imp. Kundig.
Series of League of Nations Publications
XII.B. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUX
1936. XII.B.l.
and the Members of the League.]
Official No.: O. 2a ^la 2» 1936. XII.
Geneva, January 3rd, 1936.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE
TO REFUGEES
REPORT RY THE COMMITTEE
SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Summary.
Page
Introduction 2
Part I: Various Aspects of the Problem 3
Part II: Conclusions 8
Part III: Proposals:
(1) Temporary Measures 9
(2) Subsequent Organisation 10
Annexes:
1. Reports on the Organisation and Operation of the Official Bodies 12
2. List of Private Relief Organisations and Refugee Groups which have submitted
a Report to the Committee 13
3. Budget for 1934 of the Nansen Office for Refugees 14
4. Special Survey by M. Michael Hansson of the Principal Legal Aspects of the
Refugee Question at the Present Time 15
In virtue of the Assembly’s decision of September 28th, 1935, based on the report of its
Sixth Committee,1 the Committee on Assistance to Refugees met at Geneva on November 28th.
In accordance with the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations, the Committee
was composed as follows:
M. Michael Hansson (Norway), former President of the Mixed Court of Appeal of Egypt,
Norwegian Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Member
of the Roumano-Hungarian Mixed Arbitral Tribunal;
His Excellency M. G. de Michelis, Senator, Italian Ambassador, former Commissioner-
General of Emigration;
His Excellency M. Stefan Osusky, Czechoslovak Minister at Paris, Chairman of the
Supervisory Commission of the League of Nations;
M. P. Roland-Marcel, Councillor of State, former Prefect of Bas-Rhin (France);
The Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart., P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., former Ambassador.
1 Report adopted by the Assembly.
(1) The Sixth Committee has examined the question of international assistance to refugees referred to the Assembly
by the Norwegian Government.
(2) It noted, first, that the Assembly has contemplated arrangements for the winding-up of the Nansen Interna¬
tional Office within a specified time-limit and according to definite budgetary rules.
(3) It considers that the League of Nations has already done useful work in the matter of assistance to refugees,
but realises the great complexity of the refugee problem, which has political, legal, humanitarian, administrative and
financial aspects, and which requires further examination within the limits of the existing decisions of the Assembly.
(4) It considers that, subject to any future decisions, this examination should be limited, for political and financial
reasons, to the categories of refugees already under the Nansen Office and the High Commissariat in London.
(5) The Sixth Committee also considers that no new additional expenditure should be incurred without explicit
permission from the Assembly.
(6) Having regard to the foregoing considerations, the Sixth Committee proposes that the Assembly should ask
the Council to appoint a small committee of competent persons to report to it on the above-mentioned question. The
committee should collect all useful evidence, particularly that of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for
Refugees. Once in possession of this report, the Council will be able to take any measures that it may think desirable,
even before the meeting of the ordinary Assembly in 1936, to which, however, the question will have to be submitted.
(7) In order to enable the above-mentioned committee to be set up, the Assembly leaves it to the Council to
appropriate a sum of 5,500 Swiss francs from the budgetary allocation of the current financial year.
S.d.N. 1.500 (F.) 1.150 (A.). 1/36. Imp. Kundig.
Series of League of Nations Publications
XII.B. INTERNATIONAL BUREAUX
1936. XII.B.l.
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