NON-LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRY FILES, , 1944-1985

IADF office files pertaining to countries other than those in the Hispanic Caribbean, Central and South America. Document types include correspondence, press releases, broadsides, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings and publications.

Countries and regions documented include British Guiana, the British West Indies, England, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tibet, and the United States. The greatest amount of material refers to Portugal and Spain. It documents the IADF's efforts to publicize human rights violations and support democratic movements during the period of fascist dictatorships in these two countries (1938-1976). Of particular interest is Grant's correspondence with Dr. Antonio Sergio, writer and anti-fascist, who served as the corresponding member of the International League for Human Rights in Portugal during the 1950s. Also of interest is correspondence and press releases from opposition groups in Spain and Portugal, including the Frente Portugal Livre, the Oposicão Portuguesa, Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas and Ibérica, a New York-based Spanish-language journal of information about Spain and Portugal, for which Grant served as an advisor. The series also includes correspondence with dissidents such as Mario Méndez Fonseca, who led a Venezuela-based opposition movement, and information about Portugal's African colonies.

The files on European countries mostly document the IADF's participation, as a representative of the Latin-American region, in international human rights organizations such as the International Commission of Jurists, the International League for Human Rights, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations.

One oversize item stored separately is a broadside from the Frente Portugal Livre (1974).