| Description | Contains: newspaper cuttings, printed leaflets and flyers, correspondence, draft reports and notes.
/1 Newspaper cuttings 1920-1922. All items have parts underlined and highlighted [by Dorothy Buxton] with subject headings 'Relief' and 'Russia', many are attached onto blank paper or onto the backs of notes or other publications. Includes two Save the Children Fund (SCF) press advertisements from 1921-1922. See attached document for a full list detailing the newpapers cuttings.
/2 Printed leaflets and flyers. Includes:
2/1 Pamphlet 'Facts of the Famine' published by the Fight the Famine Council, spring 1921 .
/2/2 Cutting from periodical in French ['The Council of the Society of Nations could not take a more humane attitude, in regard to Russia'], January 1921.
2/3 Torn page from 'The Friend' with letter from Ruth Fry, general secretary, to the editor, under the heading 'The famine in Russia', noting that the Soviet government's efforts to collect corn from provinces to prevent the recurrence of the disaster, September 1921.
2/4 Fight the Famine Council pamphlet 'The Famine in Russia' filed under 'Relief' with appeal for help including statements from Lloyd George, Arthur Ransome and Dr Nansen and suggesting what the government can do and 'What YOU must do', September 1921.
2/5 Fight the Famine Council leaflet as SCF/SC/DB/5/1/4, filed under 'Russia'.
2/6 Two pages from the 'Review of Reviews' number 383, volume LXIV, with article headed 'Shall we let them die? The famine in Russia': twenty-five million peasants in Southern Russia without food. Due to future winter conditions at least three million of them will inevitably die, by Philip Gibbs, November 1921.
2/7 Two pages from the 'Review of Reviews' number 384, volume LXIV, with article headed 'The Russian famine horror - is it true?' by Philip Gibbs, December 1921.
2/8 Page from 'The Nation', volume CXIII number 2945, with articles on America's acknowledgement of the Russian famine and on Poland, 14 December 1921.
2/9 Page from the News Sheet of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, reporting that during the wait for government relief for Russia, private relief agencies such as Nansen's, The American Relief Association, the Friends and Save the Children are battling famine and discussing the proposed project to bring over Russian children to Great Britain, December 1921.
2/10 Cutting from 'The Nation' with article on the coal situation in America, 11 January 1922. Attached onto reverse of page 3 of manuscript notes on the criticial situation [? in Silesia].
2/11 Two pages from 'The Nation' with article 'Russian friendship and the Eastern peoples', 4 January 1922.
2/12 Leaflet published by the Friends' Relief Committee 'Russian relief worker's terrible story' reporting on the work at Buzuluk, January 1922.
2/13 Pamphlet: 'International Service: bulletin of the Society of Friends' missions in Europe - France, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Poland and Russia' number 16, with articles on the Russian famine and Vienna bread riots, January 1922.
2/14 Pamphlet published by the Friends' Relief Committee 'How the Goods reach the famine area' describing the transport of relief goods to Russia and denying the argument that goods find their way to Bolshevists and are used for the Red Army. January 1922.
2/15 Cutting from 'Friend' about the cause of the Russian famine, January [1922]. Attached onto reverse of part of typescript notes on German reparation.
2/16 Cutting from 'Nation' 'Late figures on Russian industry': summary of the figures on Russian state-owned productivity made by leading Russian economist Larin, food shortages, shortages in hospital care, schools, infant death rate and relief. 1 February [1922].
2/17 Pamphlet published by Fight the Famine Council 'Help for Russia?', [1921-1922].
2/18 'Credits for Russia' by Dorothy Buxton, about Russian trade and markets; seven pages published in Labour Monthly, [1921-1922].
2/19 The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions: draft memorandum on the Russian famine by L. S. Woolf, October 1921.
2/20 The Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Questions: draft appeal for the Russian famine, 10 October 1921.
2/21 Friends' Relief Committee leaflet 'The Russian Field' number 8, reporting on aid sent to Russia and the work done in Buzuluk, 21 January 1922 (4 pages).
2/22 Friends' Relief Committee leaflet 'The Russian Field' number 9, reporting on aid sent to Russia and relief work, February 1922.
/3 Correspondence 1921-1922. Includes:
3/1 Copy of a cable from Moscow to the Friends' Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee, London, relating to the worsening conditions in Buzuluk Ooyezed, the need to be prepared to spend £100,000 monthly from January to July; all supplies sent to Watts in Minsk arrived in good condition. Cable received 28 October 1921.
3/2 Copy of a cable received from Dr Nansen, from Moscow, 22 November' by Save the Children Fund. Points, denying alleged statements, stating that 20 to 30 millions are under famine conditions, of whom at least 10 million threatened with death; conditions are worse than first thought; 'whole populations in Central Russia threatened with extermination, vast areas becoming like empty deserts'. [1921-1922].
3/3 Letter from the Department of Overseas Trade to Dorothy Buxton, relating to views expressed regarding Russian famine relief, 24 February 1922.
/4 Draft reports and notes for speeches, possibly by Dorothy Buxton, 1921-1922. Includes:
4/1 Manuscript notes on the extent of the Russian famine with statistics, written on American AEF YMCA letterhead.
4/2 Manuscript notes on the extent of famine?
4/3 Copy of 'The German Red Cross in Russia' taken from the Frankfurter Zeitung, with report by Professor Muhlens, medical head of the German Red Cross Mission to Russia, on the relief work carried out. 28 January 1922 (2 pages).
4/4 Notes of statistics concerning the Russian famine area, giving official statistics on starvation in specific districts, taken from Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 February 1922.
4/5 Notes relating to Russian industry, taken from Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 January [1922].
4/6 Notes detailing the resolutions drafted by various commissions adopted at the session of the International Russian Famine Relief Commission, headed 'Russia (Credits) Times, 10 Oct 1921', (2 pages).
4/7 'Help for Russia': report of petition for government grant in support of relief work for the Russian famine and the granting of trade credits for Russia, with note that it was sent to various newspapers, 23 February 1922 (2 copies).
4/8 'Help for Russia': copies of paper, with manuscript amendments, relating to the need for relief for Russia and trade credits, 23 February 1922 (3 copies).
4/9 'Help for Russia': part of the press release with two pages of draft version in manuscript, on YMCA headed paper attached, February 1922.
4/10 'Statement as corrected': report of government response to questions of grant of relief funds and trade credits to Russia, February 1922 (3 pages, one with manuscript amendments).
4/11 'Statement as corrected': part of report as SCF/SC/DB/5/4/10 with press release attached 'Help for Russia', 23 February 1922.
4/12 Notes on the aid given to Russia by various countries.
4/13 Manuscript notes on food requirements in Russia, the spring sowing and the autumn sowing (3 pages, two on American AEF YMCA letterhead).
4/14 Manuscript notes from 'Russian Information Review' on relief work of the People's Commissariats for education, finance, transport, foreign trade, health. (4 pages, written on reverse of Fight the Famine Council resolutions relating to the Russian famine, 12 March; and on reverse of two letters from the Labour Party to Dorothy Buxton thanking her for sending a book and article, November 1921).
4/15 'Credits to Russia, Answers to some objections': assumptions and questions with answers format (3 pages).
4/16 'Importance of Russian trade' (2 pages with manuscript amendments).
4/17 'The argument of self-interest' relating to the economic recovery of Russia (2 pages).
4/18 'The responsibility of the Soviet government' (2 pages).
4/19 'Russia's trade': notes on Russia's imports and exports (2 pages).
4/20 Extracts from the Report of the American Commission (appointed by the Near East Relief) following its visit to Russia (4 pages).
4/21 'The greatest famine in history: how Britain has refused to help'. |