With HKK243/1
THE BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
Mr. Patrick Wall, M.C., V.R.D., M.P.
Chairman
Mr. Albert Roberts, M.P.
Vice-Chairman
Mrs. M. B. L. S. de Roland-Pee' Secretary
House of Commons
London SWIA OAA
00070
QEDDO
Dear Mrs Thatcher,
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B.C.F.V.R. Secretary
3 SHAKESPEARE ROAD,
WORTHING
SUSSEX
Tel: Worthing 207691, 44296
(838)
26th May, 1979
Vietnamese Boat-People' The Urgency is
NOW
I am pleading today for the hundreds and thousands of Vietnamese Boat People who are, to the peril of their lives desperatly trying to escape from the evils of Communism
hundreds of whom
as 1
in
you know,
seas or
Vietnam find their doom either through heavy fall in the merciless hands of chinese pirates...
"Mercy Ships'
the "B.C.F.V.R.' launched the idea of Mercy Ship'. I, myself, approached "Lloyd's" Chairman and the General Council of Brition Shipping for their financial backing and loan of six fishing vessels (I believe that a number of these sea-worthy dry dock). But, due to are presently laid up in
the of
of affairs in the Shipping trade for, no help can be oftained
from
{
Vessels
these sources.
по
Island 'New Home Scheme Anothe idea launched by the `B.C.F.V.R.', which has abeady been taken up by 'Malaya' To
лиц know bize from reliable countries such as The Phillipines and
sources
Indonesia if approached discretly from deplomatic