Letters of various authorships - 17th - 20th December 1971 - discussion of special financial gift for St Vincent
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Title
Letters of various authorships - 17th - 20th December 1971 - discussion of special financial gift for St Vincent
FCO 63/882 item 208 pages 20-24
Subject
Relief/aid
Description
First page: Response to Bottomley's request of £5000 (CC#467); in first instance unwilling to do this as it would set a precedent for other preemptive measures, such as for flood preparation in India and Pakistan; however, willing to use £5000 gift from existing planned grant-in-aid without prejudice to whatever post-disaster relief judged necessary; Bottomley handwritten comment to Hankey 'Can you make something out of this lemon?'
Pages 2-4: Letter reporting that Under Secretary of ODA opposes using aid budget to assist., suggests that the funds are being used on relief so responsibility falls on FCO - ODA responsibility begins with rehabilitation; outlines the positive progress that has been made with respect to external offers of help and the $EC 10000 offer from DevDiv in Barbados which show HMG as willing to help; suggests that with no easy route forward, these attempts to secure funds should be ceased.
Page 5: Letter in response to Roberts letter supporting proposal that special gift should no longer be persued given ODA resistance and DevDiv offer of support; if criticism is made Bridgetown and Castries offices should be briefed to point out the £250,000 aid St Vincent already receives; disagrees with Mitchell's proposal to calculate total costs of naval assistance, etc.. in Tel 221 (CC#528).
Pages 2-4: Letter reporting that Under Secretary of ODA opposes using aid budget to assist., suggests that the funds are being used on relief so responsibility falls on FCO - ODA responsibility begins with rehabilitation; outlines the positive progress that has been made with respect to external offers of help and the $EC 10000 offer from DevDiv in Barbados which show HMG as willing to help; suggests that with no easy route forward, these attempts to secure funds should be ceased.
Page 5: Letter in response to Roberts letter supporting proposal that special gift should no longer be persued given ODA resistance and DevDiv offer of support; if criticism is made Bridgetown and Castries offices should be briefed to point out the £250,000 aid St Vincent already receives; disagrees with Mitchell's proposal to calculate total costs of naval assistance, etc.. in Tel 221 (CC#528).
Creator
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)
Publisher
The National Archives (UK)
Date
17th - 20th December 1971
Contributor
EH Boothroyd, JRA Bottomley, HA Hankey, CS Roberts
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
Letter
Identifier
Curating_Crises_#527
FCO 63/ 882
Coverage
The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.
Letter Item Type Metadata
Date Sent
17th-20th December 1971
To
Various recipients
From
Various authors
Files
Collection
Citation
FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Letters of various authorships - 17th - 20th December 1971 - discussion of special financial gift for St Vincent,” Curating Crises, accessed January 19, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/527.
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Item Relations
| This Item | Relation | Item: Letter from Bottomley to Treasury - 14th December 1971 - financial aid |
| Item: Telegram 221 from Mitchell to FCO - 20th December 1971 - Response to DevDiv offer of financial aid | Relation | This Item |
| Item: Letter from Smith to Boothroyd - 29th December 1971 - financial aid | Relation | This Item |
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