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Box 606961417

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Contains 46 Results:

'Mediterranean trip', 10 Feb-13 Jul 1933

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Orde Browne's tour to some of the Western Mediterranean ports, 1-27 Mar 1933, under the auspices of the British Social Hygiene Council, to ascertain the efficiency of welfare measures for seamen. Comprises: (fols. 1-6) letters from Messrs John Bruce & Co about arrangements for the voyage, 10-23 Feb (fols. 7-28) letter from F. Bowes, Hon. Secretary, British Council for the Welfare of...
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: 10 Feb-13 Jul 1933

'Institut Colonial International': Correspondence, 14 Feb 1934-Oct 1936

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Correspondence with H. Vischer, Secretary-General, International Institute of African Languages and Cultures; O. Louwers, Secretary-General of the Institute, and Lugard, President; and Prof. A.P. Newton, chiefly about an invitation to Orde Browne to prepare a report on detribalisation in the British Colonies. He was elected a member of the Institut in Jun 1936.
Extents: 27 Leaves
Dates: 14 Feb 1934-Oct 1936

'Abyssinia': Correspondence, 11-28 Oct 1935

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Correspondence between Orde Browne and his niece, Sybil Wingate, Lord Noel-Buxton's Secretary, and with L.B. Golden, General Secretary of the Save the Children Fund, and C.R. Newman Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Ambulance Service in Ethiopia, about organising help for Abyssinia (Ethiopia). There are also two copies of a memorandum by Orde Browne (fols. 18-25) on relief work under African conditions, prepared for Golden, entitled 'African refugee problems'.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: 11-28 Oct 1935

'Paper for the League of Nations Union', 7 Oct 1935-24 Feb 1936

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Correspondence with J.J. Paskin, Colonial Office; D.H. Mills, Secretary of the League of Nations Union; and W.W. Cunningham, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor, about a paper read by Orde Browne at a Lecture Conference on 'The I.L.O. and world planning', 18 Feb 1936, with a programme of the Conference (fol. 20) and three drafts of the paper, entitled 'The Administrator, the Employer and the Labourer'.
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates: 7 Oct 1935-24 Feb 1936

'Peaceful Change, Chatham House': International Studies Conference, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 7 May-5 Dec 1936

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Orde Browne was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Colonial Aspect. Comprises: (fols. 1-9) two letters from Geoffrey Keating, Hon. Secretary, General Group on Peaceful Change, with a Note by the General Rapporteur, Prof. Maurice Bourquin, and Reports on the first meeting of the International Study Groups for colonial questions and population and migration problems, 7 May 1936 ...
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates: 7 May-5 Dec 1936

Letter to Mrs Neville Rolfe and copies of two reviews by Orde Browne, 15 Oct 1933

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 5-11
Review on the Report of the Commission on the Financial and Economic position of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) (the Pim Report) for Health and Empire and the Social Hygiene Year Book.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 15 Oct 1933

Letter from Tait and reply from Orde Browne, 24 May-2 Jun 1934

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fol. 75-95
Letter from Tait with a memorandum prepared for the Colonial Office concerning the Bechuanaland Protectorate Native Administration Proclamation, and a Report on the Convention concerning forced labour in Nigeria for the period 3 Jun-30 Sep 1932; also, a letter from Orde Browne in reply and Tait's acknowledgement of this.
Extents: 21 Leaves
Dates: 24 May-2 Jun 1934