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...Lady of British politics, told the House of Commons last week, "Gentle persuasion is not going to make the Argentine government give up what it has seized by force." The broader principle was that anything less than determined resistance to the Argentine invasion would, to use the words of Haig, "condone the use of unlawful force to resolve disputes...
...assault on South Georgia offered the first concrete insight into the ways Britain might fight its difficult war in the Falklands. Even as Foreign Secretary Pym conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Haig on April 22 about a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis, as many as a dozen members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor...
While the military confrontation was paramount, much of last week's action was diplomatic. The day of the South Georgia assault, Argentine Foreign Minister Costa Méndez had been scheduled to meet with Haig to discuss U.S. proposals for a peaceful solution to the crisis. They included 1) an Argentine withdrawal from the islands and pullback of the British fleet; 2) an end to economic sanctions against Argentina imposed by Britain's supporters; 3) establishment of an interim U.S.-British-Argentine authority for the Falklands while the two disputing countries negotiate ultimate sovereignty over the territory...
...result of the British assault on South Georgia, Costa Méndez postponed, then canceled his meeting with Haig...
...ministers reaffirmed their backing of economic sanctions against Argentina during a meeting in Luxembourg attended by Foreign Secretary Pym. Clearly, the British were succeeding in consolidating their support. At the meeting Pym also defended the U.S. for failing by that time to join in the sanctions, showing sympathy for Haig's continuing efforts to act as mediator. Privately, however, many Britons were growing resentful of the American public posture of evenhandedness in the conflict...