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...diplomatic settlement were fragile. The greatest gulf between the disputants was still caused by the central issue: the ultimate disposition of the Falklands. But Argentina's Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez optimistically declared: "We are closer to peace than we are to war." Said Sir Anthony Parsons, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N.: "I think we are making progress again." Declared Pérez de Cuéllar on Friday: "There is always a risk of a breakdown." But the two parties "are much closer than when I started my exercise. These next days will...
...gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support and expressed its full confidence in me." The British have indeed: reporting to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on his talks, U.N. Ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons described the Secretary-General as being "highly skillful, extremely patient, a very professional career diplomat with special ability in the construction of realistic compromises." U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig also gives Pérez de Cuéllar good marks...
Wraith flashed the information of the Belgrano's course change to Fleet Commander Woodward, who passed it on to London. Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, chief of the British defense staff, took the news at once to the five-member emergency War Cabinet of Prime Minister Thatcher, which was meeting at 10 Downing Street. Lewin's recommendation was that the Conqueror act to defend the British task force. The War Cabinet agreed, and the order to fire was sent back to Commander Wraith...
...dispute only on April 30, after a month of unsuccessful attempts to negotiate a diplomatic settlement. Thatcher's War Cabinet realized that it could not afford to lose U.S. sympathy. As a senior British Cabinet member told TIME, "We cannot and will not repeat the ghastly mistake of Sir Anthony Eden at Suez in 1956, when he led Great Britain into war without the backing of America." Of Prime Minister Thatcher, widely known as one of the most hawkish voices in her inner circle, the Cabinet member said that "Margaret's heart may be telling her to leap...
...have met Galtieri. Before me as I write is a handsome block of marble with the Argentine army's badge on it in metal and a little brass plate recording that it was given to General Sir John Hackett by Lieut. General Leopoldo Galtieri...