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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Falklands War

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Revealed: How Pope John Paul II sent secret envoy to Margaret Thatcher during Falklands War to ask Britain to abandon islands

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused the Pope's compromise, saying that there were worse things than war, including 'the extinction of all that one believed in'
A secret memo released after 32 years shows that Pope John Paul II tried to persuade Margaret Thatcher to 'compromise' with the Argentinians over the Falklands.

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