Press Conference for American Correspondents in London (from 0915Z)

1015 onwards. Untraced. DEF-FThe New York Times, 3 June 1982, has a brief quotation from MT in a report from London by Steven Rattner, dated 2 June, which almost certainly derived from the Press Conference: "Tonight, Mrs Thatcher told reporters: ’We shall repossess those islands. There will be, I am afraid, a very considerable battle at Port Stanley, very considerable’". There is a little more in the Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1982 (William Tuohy reporting): "From the very first my political judgment was that once a dictatorship or junta invades, they cannot withdraw. That assessment has been right". She argued that it was not her up to her to make peace offers to the Junta. Transcript of an article originally published in The New York Times on 3 June 1982 and reprinted by kind permission of The New York Times Company.