File contains:

• the instrument of accession of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Convention relating to the international status of Refugees
• a League of Nations document C.L.79.1940.XII relating to the application to certain British Overseas Territories of this Convention on the International Status of Refugees, as well as of the Convention concerning the Status of Refugees coming from Germany signed at Geneva on 10 February 1938, as modified by the Additional Protocol of the 14 September 1939.

This file contains correspondence, telegrams, minutes, notes and draft letters. The British government is represented by Philip John Noel-Baker and subjects covered include: granting of visas and passports free of charge, notification of U.K.'s adhesion to the July 3-5 arrangement by letter of 7 Sept. 1922, the appointment of Dr. Golden as delegate of the High Commissioner for Refugees in the United Kingdom.