Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Thatcher And The Blackmail Of Mitterand.
According to a new book by a psychoanalyst who met the late President Mitterand of France twice a week from 1982 to 1984, the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher threatened to nuke Argentina during the Falklands war, unless Mitterand gave her the codes to enable her to disable Argentinia's French-made missiles.
Apparently she got the codes.
"One cannot win against the insular syndrome of an unbridled Englishwoman. Provoke a nuclear war for a few islands inhabited by three sheep as hairy as they are freezing! But it's a good job I gave way. Otherwise, I assure you, the Lady's metallic finger would have hit the button."
The poor man was probably terrified of the awful witch - everyone else was.
Whether the shrink is telling the truth or not, it's a great story, and having lived through her dictatorship, I certainly believe it.
Apparently she got the codes.
"One cannot win against the insular syndrome of an unbridled Englishwoman. Provoke a nuclear war for a few islands inhabited by three sheep as hairy as they are freezing! But it's a good job I gave way. Otherwise, I assure you, the Lady's metallic finger would have hit the button."
The poor man was probably terrified of the awful witch - everyone else was.
Whether the shrink is telling the truth or not, it's a great story, and having lived through her dictatorship, I certainly believe it.
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