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Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [released 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR 2/6/2/67 Part 1 f213
Editorial comments:

c1310Z = 1410 BST? The Commons adjourned at 2pm and Conservative MPs met afterwards. A transcript of Gow's notes can be read here. Alan Clark's account of the meeting suggests that the meeting broke up a little before 4pm, i.e. 1500Z (Clark Diaries: Into Politics (2000), p313.

Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 12pp
Themes: Conservative Party (organization), Defence (Falklands)