Jamaica

Country

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width, and amounts to 10,990 square kilometres (4,243 sq mi). It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring ...

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Documents about Jamaica

Saturday 9th March 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Deputy Chief of Naval Staff reports unsuccessful German attempt to mine harbour entrance of UK's Home Fleet at Scapa Flow
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
place Finland
place Caribbean
place Liverpool
place Jamaica
organisation Scapa
 

Thursday 18th July 1940

Grant of air facilities to the United States.

extract Halifax details plan to grant airbases to US. "In future" US may be responsible for guarding "English-speaking peoples"
place Great Britain
place Iceland
place Bermuda
place Caribbean
place North America
place Jamaica
place Europe
place South America
place Washington
place West Germany
organisation Hopatcong High School
organisation United States Department of State
organisation United States Navy
organisation Government of Canada
organisation United States Congress
organisation United States Army
 

Wednesday 21st August 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Halifax: Mussolini "heating up the atmosphere" but Italy "unlikely to declare war against Greece at the present time"
extract PM: Attitude of UK and US should be friends "each prepared to do what was possible to help the other" not quid pro quo
extract Cabinet calls US offer to formally exchange lease of UK base facilities for destroyers and weapons "out of the question"
person Anthony Eden
person William Lyon Mackenzie King
place South Africa
place Greece
place Bermuda
place Jamaica
place Newfoundland, Kentucky
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
organisation United States Army
 

Thursday 24th October 1940

Gibraltar Evacuees.

extract Ministers urge 10,000 Gibraltar evacuees be moved to West Indies. "Very strong reasons against" their stay in London
place Caribbean
place Jamaica
place Gibraltar
organisation Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Netherlands)
 

Saturday 16th November 1940

Reports for the Month of October 1940 for India, Burma and the Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories.

extract India Secretary: New outbreak of civil disobedience in Hyderabad State. "Not clear" what Gandhi's next intention might be
person Charles de Gaulle
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
place South Africa
place Great Britain
place Greece
place Somaliland
place Russian Empire
place Egypt
place Hong Kong
place Caribbean
place Singapore
place Jamaica
place Gibraltar
place Cyprus
place Syria
place Africa
place Burma
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation Indian National Congress
organisation Congress Working Committee
 

Wednesday 11th December 1940

Reports for the Month of November 1940 for the Dominions, India, Burma and the Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories.

extract India Secretary: Civil disobedience continuing and spreading. Mr. Gandhi has extended considerably his anti-war campaign
person Charles de Gaulle
place South Africa
place Greece
place Egypt
place Hong Kong
place Singapore
place Jamaica
place Kenya
place Burma
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation United States Navy
organisation Royal Navy
organisation Government of Canada
 

United States activities in the West Indies and other British Dependencies.

extract Colonial Secretary: "Gravely disturbed" by US demands in Caribbean. We risk "being false" to the Colonies and UK public
person Telesforo Trinidad
place Bermuda
place Caribbean
place Jamaica
place Washington
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation United States Department of State
 

Friday 31st January 1941

United States Bases: System of Command in Leased Territories.

extract Chiefs of Staff discuss the transfer of command of UK overseas bases to the United States
person Telesforo Trinidad
place Bermuda
place Jamaica
 

Thursday 6th March 1941

Meeting minutes

extract Air Chief: Particulars just received of very heavy air attack on Malta yesterday by over 100 German and Italian aircraft
extract Cabinet refuses any Parliamentary debate of lease of British bases to the United States
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person Charles de Gaulle
person Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine
place Jamaica
place Malta
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Home Office
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Constitutional Changes in Jamaica.

extract Colonial Secretary endorses Jamaican universal suffrage. "At the last election about 5.5% of the population had a vote"
place Jamaica
 

Friday 2nd May 1941

Gibraltar: Further evacuation of civilians.

extract Colonial Secretary seeks permission to evacuate 4,000 civilians from Gibraltar to UK. Minister of Health suggests Jamaica
place Jamaica
place Gibraltar
 

Meeting minutes

extract Eden: Iraqi Ambassador told if matters continue his country will "be at war with the whole of the British Empire"
extract Morrison: Other places attacked during the last four nights include Portsmouth, Tyneside, Barrow-in-Furness and Belfast
extract Morrison: Merseyside has suffered air attacks for 4 nights. Repeated attacks on towns "present many difficult problems"
extract General Dill: We are holding perimeter of Tobruk except part of west side. Germans using flamethrowers for first time
person Alexander Cadogan
person Herbert Morrison
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
place Ankara
place Baghdad
place Iraq
place Jamaica
place Gibraltar
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
place Libya
place Portsmouth
organisation Home Office
organisation United States Department of State