Telegram 209 from Mitchell to FCO - 15th December 1971 - British Development Division
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Title
Telegram 209 from Mitchell to FCO - 15th December 1971 - British Development Division
FCO 63/882 items 187, 193, 199, and 200 pages 35, 36, 43, and 57
Subject
Relief/aid
Description
Page 1: Arrival of Canadian high commission of Trinidad and British Development Division of Barbados; Mitchell not invited to attend meetings and has little information.
Page 2: Apology from Mitchell to Bell of Development division for missing opportunity to meet; request for details of meeting
Page 3: Summary of outcome of visit of Development division; agreed to fund $10,000 project in which machines would be replaced by labourers for road building; believed that this would absorb most evacuees into employment.
Page 4: Follow up correction to page 3.
Page 2: Apology from Mitchell to Bell of Development division for missing opportunity to meet; request for details of meeting
Page 3: Summary of outcome of visit of Development division; agreed to fund $10,000 project in which machines would be replaced by labourers for road building; believed that this would absorb most evacuees into employment.
Page 4: Follow up correction to page 3.
Creator
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)
Publisher
The National Archives (UK)
Date
15th 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.
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_#512
FCO 63/ 882
Coverage
The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.
Telegram Item Type Metadata
Date Sent
15th December 1971
To
FCO
From
DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative
Files
Collection
Citation
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Telegram 209 from Mitchell to FCO - 15th December 1971 - British Development Division,” Curating Crises, accessed March 6, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/512.
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