Subject of the file: Securing employment for refugees for the construction of the pipe-line. Includes notes exchanged with the Information and Mandates Section and Armenian, English, French and German language press (London, Geneva, Paris, New York) cuttings as well as an excerpt of the Official Gazette (Palestine) with the Convention concluded between the Irak Petroleum Company and the British High Commissioner for the Palestine, article XI concerned employment of workers.

Extract from the "Irish Press" on the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations to convene a world economic conference: this was the result of a resolution of the Lausanne Conference asking the League of Nations to convene such a conference; S. Lester's point of view on the request addressed to the League of Nations by the Lausanne Conference; the Jouhaux-O'Rahilly resolution of the International Labour Conference proposed the same action; necessity for adequate representation of the small Powers.

Extract from the "Journal de Genève" on the Anglo-Irish economic dispute: tariff walls dispute, and question of the arbitration in the land-annuities dispute to be paid by the Irish Free State: will the arbitration be a British one or an international one since the States in conflict were both members of the League of Nations?

Photograph from the "Daily Herald", representing E. de Valera at Geneva, where he attended the session of the League of Nations Council; in the event of E. de Valera would not have been able to attend the session of the League of Nations Council at Geneva, one of his Ministers or S. Lester, the Free State's representative at Geneva, would have taken his place.

Extract from the "Irish Times": report from the Mar Shimun, hereditary Patriarch of the Assyrians, to the League of Nations to denounce his own deportation to Cyprus and the grievances of his people betrayed by the League of Nations, that gave their old lands and homes to Turkey and handed them over to an Arab Government; secret meeting, in Paris, of the League of Nations Minorities' Committee of Three (one of whom was S. Lester) to deal with the Assyrian question.