Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch with Pattie - mutual arms limitation with Russians][released 2012]
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
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| Source: | Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS3/1/2 |
| Editorial comments: | Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 140 |
| Themes: | Monetary policy, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states) |
Tuesday 30th November 1982
Interbank down from 10½ to 10¾ so removing threat to base rates
Prepared PM for nasty question driving a wedge
Phoned Paddie
Lunch Geoffrey Pattie - flying (1) Stealth means that cruise is now a “ flock of birds&rdquo, so Trident should go (2) a 6 month halt to Cruise missiles and ask Russians to deliver a corresponding disarmament
- political advantages for Kohl as he approaches election
- really wants to be promoted to Trenchards job
Bomb in No.10 - Peter Taylor not hurt
[Danes cut ½% off interest rates]
Alfred Goldstein - proposing a minority report saying that the possible £ 480 mn + savings are not at all likely unless the mgt is changed which will only come from a drastic option
Dinner at H/C Geof Pattie