Telegram 202 from Mitchell to FCO - 13th December 1971 - arrival of food supplies, necessity of external assistance

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Title

Telegram 202 from Mitchell to FCO - 13th December 1971 - arrival of food supplies, necessity of external assistance
FCO 63/882 item 159 page 106/107

Subject

Relief/aid

Description

Report of some food arriving and reducing the problem; reaffirmation that external help is necessary as a large part of the population is now totally dependent on the government and the country is poor with many people mostly living on the subsistence level; further deterioration of the situation cannot be ruled out and available resources are slender.

Creator

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)

Publisher

The National Archives (UK)

Date

13th 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_#489
FCO 63/ 882

Coverage

The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.

Telegram Item Type Metadata

Date Sent

13th December 1971

To

FCO

From

DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative

Files

Collection

St Vincent 1971-72

Citation

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Telegram 202 from Mitchell to FCO - 13th December 1971 - arrival of food supplies, necessity of external assistance,” Curating Crises, accessed May 14, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/489.

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