Correspondence with Maxwell Garnett, League of Nations Union

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Correspondence with James Clerk Maxwell Garnett (1880-1958), educationist and peace campaigner, relating to a request to write a response to a letter of protest on the arrangement for partitioning Silesia published in the Manchester Guardian, which is accepted. Garnett was asked to be a signatory on the letter in question, but refused.

Also included is reference to a suggestion that [John Maynard] Keynes, economist, may include an article in his series on reconstruction [in Europe] on the role the League [of Nations] might play in resolving the difficulties presented by the payment of reparations. There is a request from Garnett for advice on an [unknown] advertisement, for which positive feedback is provided.

There is correspondence relating to discussion of a complaint by Scott that an official letter from the League of Nations by Lord [Edward] Grey, viscount and politician, was sent directly to The Times for publication.

Also included is correspondence between E.T. Scott and the League of Nations Union, relating to a request for permission to publish a letter sent by the League to Doris M. Bekh on the treatment of the aboriginal people of Australia in response to her letter of concern on the subject, which is granted. There is a draft copy of the letter to the editor by Bekh, which was published [in the Manchester Guardian.]

GDN/A/G10/11 is a newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor by F. White, the League of Nations Union, in response to the letter from Beckh on Australia's Treatment of Aboriginals, in the Manchester Guardian, [1929].