Thread: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Old 05-03-2012, 16:50   #479
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy View Post
Don't think so, IIRC they sort of shamed themselves into helping, looks bad failing to support another European power and ally against some tin pot South American junta.
I'm sure the story was in a link somewhere in this thread. But it would take ages to find with so many pages.

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Found it:

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According to author Ali Magoudi, French President Francois Mitterrand (1916 – 1996) made a stunning claim that during Britain’s Falkland Islands war with Argentina in the early 1980s, Margaret Thatcher (1925) threatened to use nuclear weapons. Unless Mitterrand gave the British the "deactivate" codes used by anti-ship missiles that France had sold to Argentina.
http://blogcritics.org/books/article...entina-during/
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