MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment]
Document type: | Press |
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Source: | The Times , 19 Nov 1981 |
Journalist: | Patricia Clough, The Times |
Editorial comments: | MT's speech had been drafted by officials in the Foreign Office, whose head (Sir Michael Palliser) afterwards wrote her a letter of deepest apology. In the audience, among others, seems to have been Helmut Kohl. |
Importance ranking: | Minor |
Word count: | 1p |
Themes: | Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Executive |
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