La guerre des Malouines dans les relations internationales

Sixième partie - Une guerre non déclarée
From five to six the next morning until dawn, which was 6.35, it was a
very fierce fire fight. I was under my desk with my assistant. I had to
make a conscious effort to think through the noise.
People say "weren't you frightened?" I think I would have been but I
was stunned of all emotions because of the noise.
[…]
I knew I would have to give in sometime. My one anxiety was how
many lives I had to lose before I gave in, and had we done enough to
resist to get the response from Britain that we needed?
If I had known Maggie Thatcher as well then as I know her now I
would not have had that anxiety.
Ici Rex Hunt affiche ses craintes quant à une éventuelle réponse des forces
britanniques. Il avoue ne pas connaître en 1982 Mrs Thatcher, tout en regrettant de ne pas la
connaître, ce qui lui aurait ôté ses craintes.
méprisantes.
I got the admiral in charge of the task force to come to me and he
urged me to give the order to lay down arms.
He said otherwise I would be held responsible for any further
casualties.
I did point out that it is the people who start the shooting that are to
blame. But I did take his point. It was an overwhelmingly superior
force.
[At 1230, the governor, wearing his plumed governor's hat, went to the
town hall in Stanley to meet the Argentine general commanding the
invasion].
"There was this rather miserable little general, sallow faced, coming
towards me with a fixed smile on his face. I really felt the anger surge
then and I thought: "This is just the rape of the Falkland Islands."
I refused to shake hands with him and said: "You have landed
unlawfully on British territory and I order you to remove yourself and
your troops forthwith."
Rex Hunt évoque sa rencontre avec un général de l’armée argentine, ses paroles sont
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