Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2200Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012]

The timing given in the British text is doubtful - the White House logs record the call as taking place 2200-2225Z (i.e., 2300-2325 British summer time). The date given for this document is the date on which the call took place. A transcript of the call was released in full by the Reagan Library in 2016. A press account of the conversation can be read here.. The full file from which this item is taken can be seen here.

Copied to FCO7/4532 f18, with an annotation taking careful note of No.10's injunction that the contents were to be very carefully protected.