- Title: UNITED NATIONS: WEBSTER AND GUMBS SPEAK ON ANGUILLA SITUATION
- Date: 10th April 1969
- Summary: 1. GV EXT. UNITED NATIONS BUILDING 0.13 2. CU WEBSTER SPEAKS: SOF BEGINS: "WE HAD TWO...... SOF ENDS:...... ..... OUR FREEDOM". 1.41 3. CU GUMBS AT MICROPHONE 1.49 4. GUMBS SPEAKS: SOF BEGINS: "WELL IT IS........ ... OTHER IDEAS". 3.18 TRANSCRIPT: WEBSTER: "WE HAD TWO CONSECUTIVE MEETINGS TO REACH THE POINT WHERE WE WOULD HAVE ETHER ONE
- Embargoed: 25th April 1969 13:00
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- Location: UNITED NATIONS
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- Country: USA
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- Story Text: MR. RONALD WEBSTER, SELF-STYLED PRESIDENT OF ANGUILLA, HAS HAD TWO MEETINGS IN NEW YORK THIS WEEK WITH LORD CARADON, BRITAIN'S CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE AT THE UNITED NATIONS. TOMORROW (11 APRIL) LORD CARADON WILL PAY A SECOND VISIT TO THE ISLAND TO TRY TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ANGUILLA LEADERS AND BRITAIN'S COMMISSIONER THERE, MR. TONY LEE. YESTERDAY (9 APRIL) MR. WEBSTER AND HIS REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, MR. JEREMIAH GUMBS, GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE UNTIED NATIONS.
MR. WEBSTER MAINTAINS THAT THE SEVEN-POINT AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN HIMSELF AND LORD CARADON ON 31 MARCH HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED, AND HE HAS REPEATEDLY CALLED FOR THE REMOVAL OF MR. LEE.
MR. WEBSTER TOLD REPORTERS AT THE CONFERENCE OF HIS FORTHCOMING MEETING WITH LORD CARADON IN ANGUILLA: MR. JEREMIAH GUMBS WAS THEN ASKED FOR HIS COMMENTS ON THE REMARK THAT MR. MICHAEL STEARD, BRIAN'S FREEING SECRETARY IS REPORTED TO HAVE MADE TO LORD CARADON. THIS WAS THAT THE AGREEMENT ON MARCH 31 HAD NOT BEEN BREACHED. MR. GUMBS EXPRESSED HIS DISAGREEMENT WITH MR. STEWART'S VIEWPOINT:
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