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- 1919-1946 (Creation)
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528 boxes - 6 volumes - 1 index cards box
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The Administrative Commissions and Minorities Section was established to apply some obligations imposed, directly or not, by the Treaty of Versailles to the League of Nations and involving administration or arbitrary activities. This Section prepared the work concerning the question of the Saar Territory and the status of the Free City of Danzig, received the petitions of the minorities of race, language or religion, prepared the work of the Council concerning the minorities as well as the related documents.
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The copying, reproduction, and publication of documents of the fonds to which the access is given shall be subject to the following principles: a) the United Nations is not in a position to release the researchers from any obligations in respect of copyright held by persons whose works may be found in the archives, b) the reproduction or publication of large bodies of files (whole archival groups or large series therein) shall not be permitted; c) the United Nations services shall not be obliged to carry out the actual work of reproduction, even against payment.
Researches who have made use of the LON Archives as a source for their work shall supply two copies of any resulting publication to the UN Library in Geneva. For preservation reasons, it is not allowed to photocopy original paper files nor to scan them by means of a personal scanner.
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- French
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The French National Archives (Paris) hold files concerning the military administration in Upper-Silesia and the Saar plebiscite - Contact : Centre Historique des Archives Nationales - 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois - F-75003 Paris;
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The other parts of the Fonds of the Secretariat concerning the Administrative Commissions and Minorities are the Political Section, the Social Questions Section, the Communications and Transit Section (Danzig in particular), the Economic and Financial Section, the Legal Section and the Mandates Section;
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The Refugees mixed archival group is interesting for the Near East;
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In the External Fonds see the files of the Balkan Commission, the Saar Commission and the Upper-Silesia Commission;
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See also the Collections of Conventions, Ratifications and other Diplomatic Instruments concerning mainly the Saar Territory;
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The A. Loveday's Private Fonds can also be useful about Upper-Silesia.
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Protection period to: 1986-12-31
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Protection period duration: 40
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Permission: No permission necessary.
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Physical usability: Without limits
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Term of protection: None