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Editorial reaction to the Grenada invasion was mixed. "It doesn't show much resolve to take over as soft a target as Grenada," noted the Chicago Tribune, which suggested that the move may have been taken to drum up domestic political support for Reagan as a stalwart antiCommunist. The New York Times commented that the attack was undertaken because it was feasible, not because it was right, and was concerned that under the standards set forth by Reagan, "there would be no end to the wars fought to topple 'thugs.' " But the Indianapolis Star accused critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighing the Proper Role | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Some of the most pained comments on the invasion of Grenada came from the U.S.'s NATO allies. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to criticize the U.S. publicly, but she let it be known that she had tried unsuccessfully to dissuade President Reagan from taking military action in a former British colony that was still a member of the Commonwealth. The opposition made the most of the issue. During a stormy session of Parliament, Labor Foreign Affairs Spokesman Denis Healey declared that the American rejection of Britain's advice "represents a quite unprecedented humiliation of an ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Allies | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...consultation. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, also the leader of a Commonwealth nation, said that he was "astonished" by the U.S. reticence. The government of French President François Mitterrand termed the U.S. invasion "a surprising action in relation to international law," and said that "the people of Grenada must recover without delay the right to determine their destiny." The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued an unusually blunt statement declaring that "if we had been consulted we would have advised against it." In Italy, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said that his government "can only disapprove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Allies | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...shock faded, the allies did their best not to allow the event to stand in the way of hard-won unity on the missile question. Trudeau declared that he was sounding out Commonwealth leaders about a joint peace-keeping force that could replace the U.S. troops on Grenada. The Thatcher government said that it would consider participation in such a venture, and also took pains to deny that the U.S. decision had in any way weakened the alliance. Washington's lack of consultation, said British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, was "regrettable. But the fact that that has happened does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Allies | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...advisers were sorely perplexed: every idea they could think of posed the gravest dangers. But in the end they hit on a successful course of action, and a partial record of how it evolved came to light last week. Timed with inadvertent irony as American troops were invading Grenada, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston released tapes and transcripts of two meetings between J.F.K. and his top aides at the start of the Cuban missile crisis 21 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cuban Crisis Revisited | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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