File contains:

• the instruments of ratification of the Convention on International Status of Refugees
• correspondence of 1934 and 1936 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris
• a letter of 20 November 1942 from the Provisional Government of the French Republic in Vichy denunciating this Convention with the exception of articles one and two and of chapter XI
• letters dated 8 November 1944 from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Georges Bidault to Herbert Emerson, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to S. Lester, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, cancelling the denunciations made by the Provisional French Government in Vichy of the Agreement of 30 June 1928 as well as of the Convention of 28 October 1933, and restoring the status quo ante for Nansen Refugees, and explaining the desire of the French Government to extend similar system to Spanish Republican refugees.