Report of the Work of the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, The British Committee for Refugees from Spain and The Basque Children's Committee
1939 038-0069-007 REPORT OF WORK THE FOOD SHIPS WHEN the plight of the Spanish civilian population was at its worst, in the winter of 1938, and the first three months of 1939, the National Joint Committee, through its Foodship Committees, sent 29 Foodships to Spanish Republican ports. In addition to...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English |
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REPORT OF WORK THE FOOD SHIPS WHEN the plight of the Spanish civilian population was at its worst, in the winter of 1938, and the first three months of 1939, the National Joint Committee, through its Foodship Committees, sent 29 Foodships to Spanish Republican ports. In addition to valuable individual subscriptions which made this feat possible, the following areas of Great Britain raised enough money to charter one or more ships and fill them with their life-saving cargoes: Scotland Hampshire Tyneside West of England Merseyside Surrey Yorkshire Humber Nottinghamshire Eastern Counties Manchester Midlands Northern Ireland London Irish Free State. By great good fortune, not one of the Foodships was sunk. All reached port safely and delivered to the Spanish people thousands of tons of dried milk, cod-liver oil and dried codfish, flour, sugar, tinned foodstuffs of all kinds, medical supplies, boots and warm clothing. THE REFUGEE SHIPS In February of this year, 450,000 refugees fled from Catalonia into France, where the men found themselves separated from their families, herded behind barbed wire on the sands near Perpignan, while their wives and children were scattered in groups throughout the villages of the interior. At this stage, the British Committee for Refugees from Spain was founded in order to continue in France the work of relief carried on so untiringly throughout the war in Spain. As can be well understood the problem was - and still is — so vast that the relief which a voluntary organisation can give is necessarily extremely limited. Nevertheless, the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and the British Committee for Refugees from Spain, working in conjunction, have a solid record of achievement to their credit. 3
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