Britain Alone by Philip Stephens

Britain Alone by Philip Stephens

Author:Philip Stephens [Philip Stephens]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571341795
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00


NOTES

1 Interview with author.

2 Ibid.

3 Thatcher, Margaret, The Path to Power, HarperCollins, London, 1995, p. 57.

4 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, speech at Kensington Town Hall, 19 January 1976.

5 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, letter to President Carter, 2 October 1979.

6 Moore, Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Vol. 1: Not for Turning, Allen Lane, London, p. 442.

7 Thatcher, Margaret, The Downing Street Years, HarperCollins, London, 1993, p. 156.

8 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, speech accepting Donovan Award (‘The Defence of Freedom’), 28 February 1981.

9 National Archives, cited in The Times, 1 May 2014.

10 Freedman, Lawrence, Britain and the Falklands War, Institute of Contemporary British History, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, p. 23.

11 Bennett, Six Moments of Crisis, p. 169.

12 Hansard, HOC, Vol. 21, cc. 633–68, 3 April 1982.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

15 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, Falklands: Henderson Valedictory Despatch (‘US Policy in the Falkands Crisis with Some Valedictory Comments on US/UK Relations’), 27 July 1982.

16 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p 198.

17 Office of the Historian, ‘Transcript of a Telephone Conversation between President Reagan and British Prime Minister Thatcher’, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–88, Vol. XIII.

18 Hansard, HOC, Vol. 25, c. 738, 15 June 1982.

19 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 235.

20 Interview with author.

21 Hansard, HOC, Vol. 971, cc. 620–736, 25 July 1979.

22 Moore, Charles, Not for Turning, p. 452.

23 Private conversation.

24 Wright, Patrick, Behind Diplomatic Lines: Relations with Ministers, Biteback, London, 2018, p. 1.

25 Interview with author.

26 Moore, Charles, Margaret Thatcher, Vol. II: Everything She Wants, Allen Lane, London, 2015, p. 129.

27 Interview with author.

28 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 444.

29 Interview with author.

30 Ibid.

31 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, ‘Press Conference after Andropov’s Funeral’, 14 February 1984.

32 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, ‘Return to Moscow’, Margaret Thatcher’s memoir, 16 March 1985.

33 Margaret Thatcher Foundation, ‘Record of a Meeting between the Prime Minister and President Reagan at Camp David, 22 December 1984’.

34 Ibid.

35 Moore, Everything She Wants, p. 252.

36 Interview with author.

37 US National Security Archive, ‘Session of CC CPSU Politburo, Outcomes of Margaret Thatcher’s Visit, 16 April 1987’.

38 Hurd, Douglas, Memoirs, Little, Brown, London, 2003, p. 381.

39 National Archives, Ref. PREM 19/3175. See also Salmon, Patrick (Ed.), Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII: German Unification 1989–1990, Routledge, London, 2010, p. 79, text and footnote.

40 US National Security Archive, ‘Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher, 23 September 1989’, written by Anatoly Chernyaev. See also ‘The Thatcher–Gorbachev Conversations’, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 422, posted 12 April 2013.

41 Speech to the College of Europe, Bruges.

42 Wright, Behind Diplomatic Lines, p. 188.

43 Salmon, Documents on British Policy Overseas, pp. 164–5.

44 Hurd, Memoirs, p. 382.

45 Timothy Garton Ash, ‘Britain Fluffed the German Question’, Guardian, 21 October 2009.

46 Interview with Nicholas Ridley, ‘Saying the Unsayable About the Germans’, Spectator, 14 July 1990. Available at the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.



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