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Early in April 1982 Argentina executed a successful invasion of the British colony of the Falkland Islands. She had long laid claim to the territory, as well as to some other small British islands in the South Atlantic, but the advancement of her case in so dramatic and unorthodox a fashion was a great surprise in every quarter. Britain immediately made it clear that if the Argentinians would not leave, she proposed to eject them, and set about organizing an expedition to what, for her, was a very distant part of the international high street (see Map 38).
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Anthony Parsons, ‘The Falklands crisis in the United Nations, 31 March–14 June 1982’, International Affairs, 59 (2) (Spring 1983).
The Times, 21 May 1982.
United Nations Information Centre, London, Secretary-General of the United Nations Reports to the Security Council on the Situation in the Falklands (Malvinas) Islands on 21 May 1982, BR/82/13 (22 May 1982).
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James, A. (1990). The War over the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas (1982). In: Peacekeeping in International Politics. Studies in International Security . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21026-8_42
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