Syria and Lebanon, 1920-1937
File
MSS. Lugard 129
- File 1, items 1-4: Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, questionnaire and text of Organic Law for Syria and the Lebanon, 1922-1930.
- File 2, fols. 1-81 and items 1-3: Material circulated by the Mandates Section secretariat on the Syrian Mandate, the protection of women and children and the general situation in the French Mandated Territories, 1920-1936.
- File 3, fols. 1-21: Summary of debates on Syria in the French legislature, 1925.
- File 4, item 1: "Memorandum on the Application of the Mandatory System of the League of Nations by France in Syria" by the Syrian American Society of the United States, [1926].
- File 5, fols 1-20: Newspaper cuttings and extracts from Hansard on the administration of the French Mandate in Syria and refugees, 1925-1933.
- File 6, fols. 1-19: "Syria and Lebanon, summary of Criticisms and Defence of the situation in 1925" and "Déclaration du Gouvernement Francais sur la situation de la Syrie et du Liban", 1925-1926.
- File 7, fol. 1 and items 1-6: Reports by Dr Fridtjof Nansen, by the High Commissioner for Refugees on Russian and Armenian refugees, by the French Foreign Minister on a Treaty of Friendship between France and Turkey in 1926, by the Commission to determine the Frontier between Syria and Iraq, by the Secretary General of the Foyer de Jeunes on juvenile delinquency and prostitution in Lebanon in 1932 and by the delegate in Syria for the International Red Cross on the conditions of refugees, 1925-1937.
- File 8, fols. 1-25: Correspondence with A.T. Wilson about Syrian currency, with Alison Neilans (secretary of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene) about prostitution in Syria, and with Margery Corbett Ashby (president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship) and Lady Astor about women's rights and their abuse, 1926-1936.
- File 9, fols. 1-40: Précis by Lugard of the Report on Syria of 1924, with other manuscript notes, n.d.
Dates
- Creation: 1920-1937
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Lugard 129
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk