An exchange on 24 May 1983 between Diana Gould, an English schoolteacher and former Women's Royal Naval Service meteorological officer, and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was voted in 1999 a
Diana Gould speaking to Margaret Thatcher (right) and Sue Lawley, in the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, 24 May 1983
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Margaret Thatcher
ARA General Belgrano
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ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy as USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II
Diana Gould–Margaret Thatcher exchange
…confronted Thatcher over the sinking of the Belgrano, an Argentine warship, during the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. ARA General Belgrano, a cruiser, sank with the loss of 323 lives on 2 May 1982, after Thatcher gave the order to attack it when it sailed near a 200-mile exclusion zone the…
ARA General Belgrano underway, c. 1968
Phoenix at Pearl Harbor in 1941