Falklands Tensions Flare Anew

In 1910, a 17,000-word memo was commissioned by the Foreign Office to look at the historical dispute over sovereignty. The study highlighted many weaknesses in the British case and can be seen as our equivalent of the Pentagon Papers, the leaked study of US policy in Vietnam.

The holes in the British case shocked many officials in Whitehall. The head of the Foreign Office’s American department, Gerald Spicer, wrote: “From a perusal of this memo it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Argentine government’s attitude is not altogether unjustified and that our action has been somewhat high-handed.”  >link<

‘Somewhat highhanded’  |  Big Oil & Gas finds spark fury

UK committed  |  Falklands/Malvinas History
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update: Peru cancels Royal Navy visit  |  Brit plurality says keep ‘at all costs’

And by the way, which one’s Pink?