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

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher Archive: THCR 2/6/2/67 Part 1 f213
Editorial comments:

c1310Z = 1410 BST? The Commons adjourned at 2pm and Conservative MPs met afterwards. The original text of the 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: 6pp
Themes: Conservative Party (organization), Defence (Falklands)