Bureau of Social and International Affairs, 1930-1935

Component identifier:

Series 50

Content Summary:

Originally known as United Secretarial Services, the Bureau of Social and International Affairs was established in 1928, largely on the initiative of E.C. Dyason. The Bureau acted as an umbrella secretariat for groups based in Melbourne interested in the study of international relations and social science. The Victorian Branches of the Institute of Pacific Relations, the Royal (later Australian) Institute of International Affairs, and the Australian League of Nations Union, as well as the Victorian Round Table Group and the International Club were all affiliated societies. Copland was associated with the Bureau through his membership of several of these groups and for a time in the early 1930s was a Bureau Director.

The few Bureau items retained by Copland have been sorted into Series 50. Here there are notices, secretaries' and accountants' reports, and financial statements, some Women's Auxiliary for International Affairs material, papers on a 1931 International Cabaret. There is also some correspondence between Copland and other Bureau Directors E.C. Dyason, W.H. Moore, F.W. Eggleston and D. Mackinson, and Secretaries A. Constance Duncan, Tristan Buesst, and Norma Collison.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Lady Copland presented the personal papers of Sir Douglas Copland to the National Library in September 1973. Additions to the collection were received from the Copland Family between 1977 and 1981.

Names:

Copland, D.B. (Douglas Berry), 1894-1971

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