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PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Order Paper of the House of Commons ("No.92, Saturday 3rd April 1982, 2135") [Notice of Motion, "That this House do now adjourn"; MT, Foot opening, Silkin, Nott winding up] [this copy declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Votes & Proceedings of the House of Commons ("No.92, Saturday 3rd April 1982, 483") [House met at 11, adjourned at 2] [this copy declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Chief Whip's Office note ("Arrangements being made for Falkland Islands debate on Wednesday, 7th April 1982") [John Nott briefing various committees; MOD preparing a 2pp brief for MPs by weekend] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Conservative Whip ("Revised Business and Whipping for Wednesday, 7th April") [two line whip for Falklands debate] [this copy declassified Dec 2012]
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 7 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (further reaction within the Parliamentary Party to Falklands situation; Labour and SDP reactions) [account of views of individual MPs] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Government Chief Whip's PS letter to Cabinet Office (Ted Rowlands remark that Britain had been reading Argentine codes) [discussion among MOD ministers; Jopling approach to Cocks; "Mr Rowlands has undertaken to make no further public pronouncements on this matter"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wade-Gery minute to Armstrong ("Falklands: Possible Emergency Bill") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Whitelaw minute to MT (Emergency Powers (Falkland Islands) Bill) [Bill will allow expulsion from UK of "anyone whose expulsion appears...to be expedient"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: Government Deputy Chief Whip's circular to whips (announcement of South Atlantic Presentation Unit) [reactions of individual whips] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: No.10 letter to Home Office ("Panorama, Monday 26 April") [request for briefing notes for MT's interview] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Jopling minute to MT (views within the Parliamentary party on Falklands crisis) ["no surrender" group, pro-negotiations group, fears about "military disaster", pro-UN group, anti-violence group] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jopling letter to Pym (Irish attitude) [Robert Rhodes James lunching at Irish Embassy with Dempsey, who gave "a clear and unmistakeable impression" that Ireland might back away from its previous support for Britain at the UN] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 632 to FCO (0543Z) ("Your Visit to New York: Falklands") [UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar aide memoire for Pym] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Pym minute to MT (Argentine aircraft carrier) ["so long as the carrier is on its present course and in its present posture, our justification for attacking it would be questionable"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (draft reply to letters from two Welsh Nationalist MPs) [Dafydd Wigley & Dafydd Elis Thomas - regrets they cannot support the British case] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT letter to Dafydd Wigley MP (Plaid Cymru views of crisis) [regrets they cannot support the British case; government attempting to use peaceful means] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Government Deputy Chief Whip's circular to whips (MT correspondence with Bowen Wells) ["open letter" by Wells setting out his view that post-war policy towards the islands should revive leaseback; 'unbelievable' (Peter Brooke), "why on earth is Ian Gow pushing him so hard" (David Hunt)] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jopling minute to Pym (British Colmbia Group meeting) [Colombian Ambassador told around 8 backbenchers last night that Colombia backed Argentine claim but not use of force; told Dalyell that if Britain attacked mainland, Colombia and all Latin American countries would probably break relations with UK] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jopling letter to Nott ("Secretary of State for Defence") [Michael Brotherton MP saying untrue that military preparations held back by diplomacy, on basis of his friendship with Admiral Woodward; get alongside him to stop "tiresome rumours"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jopling letter to David Waddington (thanks for his letter) [Waddington believes "a merciful Lord saved us from disaster when the Argentinians rejected the Peruvian terms"] [declassified Dec 2012]
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