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‘The House meets this Saturday to respond to a situation of great gravity’, announced the prime minister, visibly shaken. ‘We are here because, for the first time for many years, British sovereign territory has been invaded by a foreign power.’1 The hand of history weighed heavily on Margaret Thatcher. A quarter of a century had passed since the Commons gathered on a Saturday. Hours earlier, the Argentine flag had been hoisted above the Falkland Islands Government House.
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Donaghy, A. (2014). Introduction. In: The British Government and the Falkland Islands, 1974–79. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329561_1
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