Originally published in The Eagle, Bryan, Texas on Saturday, November 5th, 1977 Transcript Long Live Frestonia Slum Squatters want to join United Nations By A O SULZBERGER, Jr. LONDON (AP) – The last house standing on a street of empty, garbage-filled lots fenced off with corrugated iron is the Foreign Ministry of Frestonia. […]
Original article published by the Domingo-based La Vanguardia Internacional, November 13th, 1977
Original article published by the Florida-based Sarasota Herald-Tribune, November 5th, 1977. Transcript London Squatters Trying To Secede By A O SULZBERGER, Jr. LONDON (AP) – The last house standing on a street of empty, garbage-filled lots fenced off with corrugated iron is the Foreign Ministry of Frestonia. Frestonia? It’s the latest member of the […]
Martin Young interviews David Rappaport-Bramley, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the newly declared independent state in London. Broadcast on November 1st, 1977. Transcript Martin Young Good evening. Tonight we report the emergence of a new nation state and ask the questions the world will need to answer. Can Hammersmith ever be the same again? There […]
Broadcast on November 2nd, 1977 Transcript David Well, no I wouldn’t be very disappointed if it didn’t happen and I’d be quite surprised if it did happen. But I mean we’ve gone into it in great detail we’ve sent copies of declarations of independence to the United Nations, to the EEC, to the Queen, to […]
Recorded on November 1st, 1977. Transcript David We, the Free Independent Republic of Frestonia, herewith apply for full membership of the United Nations with autonomous nation status. We’re quite serious. It’s one of our methods of negotiating. We’ve had public meetings with the local council and the citizens here voted unanimously against their plans […]
The Free Independent Republic of Frestonia TO THE PEOPLE OF HAY FROM THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT CITIZENS OF FRESTONIA WHO CURRENTLY RULE THE CORRUGATED WAVES IN WEST LONDON LOYAL GREETINGS! Full transcription continues below. The three streets now known as Frestonia since early last year were an open sewer in Dickens’s day: the Jarrow Hunger […]
Photo caption Frestonia is a very small nation, following the precedent of Luxembourg and Monaco, with the precept of the late Dr. Schumaker “Small is Beautiful”. It’s an area of approx. 8 acres, a distinctly isolated island of near dereliction, surrounded by the West 10 and 11 sectors of London, England. A full transcription of […]
Dated October 30th, 1977, and signed by David Rappaport-Bramley, Minister for State for Foreign Affairs, this landmark application requests full membership of the United Nations, with autonomous nation status.
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