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PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.78 (1930Z) ("Falklands - Security Council") [draft British resolution and statement by British Permanent Representative] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (2000Z) (chronology) [event during the day] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT notes for speech to House of Commons (0100Z?) ("Events This Week") ["The Government has now decided that the fleet will sail as soon as all preparations are complete"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: New Zealand PM Muldoon message to MT (0110Z) (Argentine invasion) ["we stand ready to help in whatever way may be appropriate"; statement condemning "armed aggression" - MT copy] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) ["I agree with you completely as to the gravity of this use of armed force"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1100Z) (Falklands) ["We refused to play the head-hunting game or to indulge in speculation along the lines that the Falklands would be impossible to recapture and so we were talking about a naval blockade"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Gow notes (1310Z?) (1922 Committee Meeting: The invasion of the Falkland Islands) [transcript of Gow's notes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Falklands) ["a task force was going to sail subject to orders"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 129 to FCO (0605Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Prime Minister Fraser of Australia announces full support for UK Government against Argentine "invasion and occupation"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands, Argentine assets frozen, UN support) [Government felt to have suffered Parliamentary humiliation] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin 78 (Facts; Indications from press reports; Ministers; Governor's party; Press arrangements; Prince Andrew; Other points) [British marines on South Georgia overwhelmed] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 295 to FCO (1120Z) ("Falkland Islands") [German Ambassador to BA meets with Galtieri: "Galtieri added that he had no special confidence in US attempts to mediate in the dispute. He preferred to look to Europe to do this"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1600Z) (Falkland situation) [detailed update; Prince Andrew to sail on HMS Invincible; refuted suggestion of cabinet changes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham note to MT ("ITN Tomorrow") [interview with Glyn Mathias will focus on Falklands] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (?0700Z) (Week Ahead; Falklands, US support, resignations, public borrowing, unions and pay) ["Press generally baying for Lord Carrington's blood ... his friends say he is thinking of resigning"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Press Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 note of BBC Today ("Today summary April 5") [main news items; "Mrs Thatcher not looking for any resignations at present"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Price of Belize message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [Price condemns invasion and calls for withdrawal of Argentine forces] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Note to Press Officers ("Possible Economic and Trade Sanctions Against Argentina") [HMG "considering a wide range of options including diplomatic and economic measures"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO note to No.10 ("Communications with Port Stanley") [report on functioning of outside communications with Port Stanley prior to Argentine invasion] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO minute to FCO News Department ("Falkland Islands: ICRC") [ICRC sensitive as to their neutrality] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) (Lord Butler, HC Statement on NI, Falklands) [MT "not of a mood to want resignations", her view was that "this was a time for the Government to pull together and unite"; HMS Invincible sailed at 10am] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Commonwealth Secretary General Ramphal message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) ["I share your condemnation of Argentina's reprehensible conduct in this matter"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Charles of Dominica message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) [condemns invasion] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin (Canberra requisitioned as a troop carrier, marines) [plus sitrep for guidance of press officers] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.79 ("Prime Minister's meeting with Governor and marines") [account of meeting; biographical notes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Pattison minute to Whitmore (John Nott's resignation letter) [Nott wants his resignation letter made public, ideally with a reply from MT giving reasons for rejecting it, to be published alongside, essential for his position here and with the Task Force] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1150Z) (Resignations) [Carrington resigned "as he believed that this was the only honourable course for him to pursue"; "no question of [MT] sacking Lord Carrington or rebuking him"; Nott resignation refused] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT note to ?Gow (appointment of new Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary) ["It was Francis or George Younger...I realise your worries"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 Press Notice (resignations) [exchanges of letters between MT and departing ministers] [this copy released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Prime Minister Thapa of Nepal message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) ["The use of force by any country against another is fraught with serious consequences for stability and peace"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: President Jayewardene of Sri Lanka message to MT (Argentine invasion of the Falklands) ["Sri Lanka condemns the use of force in the settlement of any international disputes"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: FCO press conference transcript (1430Z) (Governor Rex Hunt, Majors Noonan and Norman) [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) ('Resignations') [Carrington, Atkins & Luce resign; stressed that MT "was not of a mind to seek resignations"; "we did not know of any plans the PM might have to resign"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: CCO press release (1500Z) (Winston Churchill MP speech in Loughborough) [failure to deter; "Weakness ... invariably invites aggression"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: No.10 press notice (Ministerial Appointments) [Pym as Foreign Secretary, Biffen as Lord President, taskforce sets sail] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Mower minute to MT ("Interviews") [briefing for interviews with ITN and the BBC on Falklands, Carrington's resignation, use of force, US attitudes] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1710Z) (ministerial appointments) [MT's objective "was to return the Falklands to British sovereignty"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jock Bruce-Gardyne letter to MT (Bruce-Gardyne urges compromise with Argentina) ["More spectacular solutions may appeal to the gallery: but would they last?"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Laurens van der Post letter to MT (advice for MT on influencing public opinion) ["one supreme value...which is at stake": "naked aggression will not be allowed and wherever it occurs, it will be resisted and overcome"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Falklands, EC, international and domestic support, unions and pay) [Times and Telegraph allege "we knew of invasion plan 10 days ago and ignored it"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.82 (UNSCR502) [reissues text of UNSCR502] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Press Office bulletin No.83 ("UK import ban on Argentine goods") [announcement of immediate total ban; urgently seeking EC help to stop Argentine imports being reexported to UK] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Walters note to MT ("The Gilt Market") [fall in gilt edged securities is a vote of confidence in MT: "It reflects a fear that you may lose control of the Government"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1000Z) ("PM's Day, Cabinet, Questions, Ulf Adelson, Answers of Interest [in Parliament], Publications, Bill, Mr Heath, Ministerial Appointments, Advance Warning ...") ["we could not be sure that the consequential Ministerial appointments would all be completed today"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Carrington letter to MT (Carrington's decision to resign) ["I was right to go. There would have been continual pressure & such advice as I gave you would have been questioned. The Party will now unite behind you..."] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Carrington message to FCO ("Farewell Message from Lord Carrington") ["Most of this criticism [of Government Falklands policy] has in my view been unfounded. But I was responsible...and it is right that I should have resigned"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign Policy: Hugh Thomas minute to MT (recommends foreign policy unit at No.10) [unit would be "comparable to the US National Security Council"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1500Z) (Cabinet, ministerial appointments, debate, intelligence) ["The world was offering its support"] [released 2013]

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