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Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [limited progress in accepting Walters’s Falklands solution][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/2
Editorial comments: Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 85
Themes: Defence (Falklands), Monetary policy

Thursday 13th May 1982

Talk of sell out on 8.00 AM news

Lunch Roberto Campos (Brasilian Amb) + Megnahd Desai [Meghnad Desai]

Emotional stuff about sovereignty + history

- but I argued for magnanimous compensation and plebiscite - he agreed it could and should be done - make the offer so generous eh

Richard Haas confirmed my interpretation of the ILO Convention 26 will not inhibit our abolition of Wages Councils

Dinner with Alfred S [Alfred Sherman] Chris Monkton [Christopher Monckton] and the Sheas