| Description | Contains, newspaper cuttings, printed leaflets, copies of reports and speeches, and mauscript notes for speeches. Includes part of the original file cover, which is marked 'Look this for lecturette Xmas vac'.
/1 Newspaper cuttings, 1917-1923. All with notes and parts underlined. Mainly attached to notes or other publications. Includes:
1/1 Three newspaper cuttings: 'British war aims, for better knowledge in Russia' Manchester Guardian, 23 May 1917; 'British government and Russian peace aims', The Times, 24 May, 1917; 'Russia's appeal, our answer,' advert in Manchester Guardian, 26 May 1917.
1/2 'No famine grant. Cabinet and heavy burdens. MPs questions. Cost of Mesopotamia to you. 7d in the £ of Income Tax. Huge bill since war ended', Daily News, 10 March 1922.
1/3 'The World's Granary. Our need of Russia's unploughed Wheatfields' by William Purvis, Daily Herald, 15 June 1923.
/2 Printed leaflets and flyers, 1922. Includes:
2/1 Passages from the 'Allied Memorandum on the Economic Reconstruction of Europe': Copy of passages from the 'Allied memorandum on the Economic reconstruction of Europe', copied from New York 'Nation', 22 February 1922 (one page, marked page 4).
2/2 Copies of article 'Russian Railway Contracts', from the Manchester Guardian 3 March 1922 (5 copies).
2/3 Pamphlet 'Help for Russia?' with notes on government aid contribution [1922]: Pamphlet 'Help for Russia?' published by the Fight the Famine Council for European Reconstruction; attached is a typescript page on government spending in comparison with aid given. Duplicate in SCF/SC/DB/5.
2/4 Labour Party draft memorandum on Foreign Policy: Labour Party, Advisory Committee on International Questions: draft memorandum on Labour's Foreign Policy, 3 November 1921 (8 pages plus lower half of page 5/6 relating to Russia's food supply, Austria and Balkanisation).
2/5 Labour Party proposed memorandum on the economic situation: Labour Party: Advisory Committee on International Questions: proposed memorandum on the economic situation by Dorothy Buxton, 22 October 1921 (2 pages).
2/6 Labour Party draft insertion for Foreign Policy pamphlet: Labour Party, Advisory Committee on International Questions: draft section for insertion in Foreign Policy pamphlet, no. 228a' by Professor C. R. Beazley [October/November 1921].
2/7 Labour Party draft manifesto paper: 'The Labour Party, Advisory Committee on International Questions: draft manifesto on unemployment and foreign policy, with manuscript amendments, 19 November 1922 (2 pages).
/3 Draft reports and articles, 1920-1922. Typescript and carbon copy reports and extracts, including:
3/1 'Report on Siberian prisoners' by Elsa Brandstrom, delegate of the Swedish Red Cross, Stockholm, September 1920 (2 pages)
3/2 'Interview with Mr Krassin' relating to Russia's economic situation, 8 November 1921 (2 pages)
3/3 Extract from statement sent by Mr W. P. Coates of the National Hands Off Russia Committee, relating to Russian transport, 27 March 1922 (3 pages)
3/4 Pages 2-9 of report on the economic situation in Russia with headings 'Peasant population, city population. The seed campaign for the crop of 1922. Financial aid. The work of foreign relief organisations' etc (7 pages)
3/5 Extracts and notes on reparation and exchanges, 1922 (2 pages)
3/6 Bible extracts from Matthew, Luke and James (4 pages)
3/7 Notes on Russian exports and imports, statistics [1920-1922] (6 pages)
3/8 'The greatest famine in history. How Britain has refused help' [1920-1922] (5 pages)
3/9 'The greatest famine in history' 'How Britain has refused help' [1920-1922] Duplicate of previous
3/10 'The Nansen scheme for credits to Russia, [1920-1922] (2 copies)
3/11 'Russian transport: extract from interview with Assistant People's Commissary for Transport, [1920-1922] (6 pages)
3/12 'Why not credits to Russia?' [1920-1922] (2 pages)
3/13 'Credits for Russia?', draft report [1920-1922] (3 pages)
3/14 'Credits for Russia? The argument of self interest. Importance of Russian as market for British exports' with notes and amendments [1920-1922] (6 pages)
3/15 Carbon copy report 'Credits for Russia? The argument of self interest. Importance of Russia as market for British exports' [1920-1922] (12 pages including appendix)
3/16 'Russia as source of food supplies', [1920-1922] (7 pages)
3/17 'Russia: Economic relations with Great Britain', [1920-1922] (3 pages)
3/18 'Russia, extent of famine', [1920-1922] (16 pages)
3/19 Part of article on trade with Russia, including quotations from Sir Peter Rylands and Sir P. Lloyd Greame, [1920-1922] (2 pages)
3/20 Article on the causes of the Russian famine, originally due to droughts, [1920-1922] (3 copies of two-page article)
3/21 Notes on Russia's fate, Europe's defeat and the failure of the Genoa Conference, [1922] (2 pages)
/4 Manuscript notes for speeches and articles, [1920-1923]:
4/1 Notes on the Russian famine: Brief notes on the Russian famine, industry and a municipal orphanage, November 1923
4/2 Notes on Russia, 1922: Six small pages (sides numbered 1-7) of notes relating to Russia for a speech, marked 'Not used'. Written on American AEF YMCA letterhead paper.
4/3 Notes on the causes of the Russian famine, [1921-1923]: Four small pages with notes, draft for the paper on the causes of the famine. Written on American AEF YMCA letterhead paper.
4/4 Notes headed 'Russia', [1921-1923]: One small page with notes on the back and front marked 'Russia', with headings 'Famine caused by drought' and 'Dr Nansen's appeal on humanitarian grounds', possibly for a speech or article.
4/5 Notes on the Russian economic situation, [1921-1923]: Page of notes, on reverse is quotation from Vitti on relating to Russian debt.
4/6 Notes on possible future for trade with Russia: Three pages with notes about Russia trade and production, from [Frank] Wise at the Labour Party Advisory Committee', September 1923. |