Quote:There were no such difficulties between Britain and the United States. A telegram from the British embassy in Washington, dated 3 May, shows that the US Defence Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, had expressed "eagerness to give us (Britain) maximum support". The US even offered the use of an aircraft carrier, the Eisenhower.

Quote:Ronald Reagan issued a last-ditch appeal to Margaret Thatcher to abandon her campaign to retake the Falklands and to hand over the islands to international peacekeepers, according to official documents made public today.
Files released by the National Archives at Kew, South West London, under the 30-year rule show that as British troops closed in on final victory, the US president made a late-night phone call to Mrs Thatcher urging her not to completely humiliate the Argentines.
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Mr Reagan made his call to Mrs Thatcher in Downing Street at 11.30pm London time on May 31, 1982, as British forces were beginning the battle for Port Stanley, the Falklands capital.
The Americans had already proposed sending a joint US-Brazilian peacekeeping mission, and the president suggested that the time had come to show magnanimity.
"The best chance for peace was before complete Argentine humiliation," he told her. "As the UK now had the upper hand militarily, it should strike a deal now."

WIZEB wrote:She had an election to win.

You know, 'Rule Britannia', flag waving, and all that bollox.

It worked.

World of Redboy wrote:Maybe you should have read the other released dispatches, as winning an election wasn't on her mind.

Durham Giant wrote:funny how on the BBC website the news about the falklands talks about this

yet SKY news reports this

So much for the special relationship when it came to the crunch America was more interested in keeping its good relationship with Latin America than with Britain. A very significant difference of opinion as opposed to that put out by the beeb.

Scooter Nik wrote:How do the two stories timeline? Are they concurrent or does one preceed the other?


Not enough info, but:

'News reporting is biased'

You're surprised by this?

JerryChicken wrote:Two reports three weeks apart (which was a long time in the conflict) which are probably both absolutely true, the BBC choose to select one, Sky the other, does it show political bias or editorial choice, do you seriously not read everything in the knowledge that someone has specifically selected and/or written the article with a viewpoint in mind to present to you ?

The truth is usually gathered by reading all presentations and questioning all you read/view unless the individual wishes to be deliberately swayed in one direction or another (football supporter politics).

But you knew that anyway.

WIZEB wrote:I know, she was all consumed by the record unemploment she'd created since the 1930's.

wigan_rlfc wrote:I never realised that she was PM for so long.