Saving Telegram 10 from Mitchell to FCO - 5th December 1971 - Summary of decisions behind evacuation call

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Title

Saving Telegram 10 from Mitchell to FCO - 5th December 1971 - Summary of decisions behind evacuation call
FCO 63/882 item 114 page 163/164

Subject

Evacuation

Description

Summary of decision making behind evacuation call; discussion of difficulty faced by Premier in making the decision.

Creator

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)

Publisher

The National Archives (UK)

Date

5th December 1971

Contributor

DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative

Rights

These files are made available by The National Archives via Discovery, the full entry for this item can be found here.

The full item FCO 63/882 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.

These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.

Format

JPG

Language

English

Type

Telegram

Identifier

Curating_Crises_#453
FCO 63/ 882

Coverage

The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.

Telegram Item Type Metadata

Date Sent

5th December 1971

To

FCO

From

DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative

Files

Collection

St Vincent 1971-72

Citation

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Saving Telegram 10 from Mitchell to FCO - 5th December 1971 - Summary of decisions behind evacuation call,” Curating Crises, accessed March 6, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/453.

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