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Archive (Thatcher MSS)
Personal and party papers, Cambridge

European Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [draft Treaty on European Union between West Germany & France, incorporating British text without consultation; Powell: "I said that I took an extremely dim view of this message ... a black day for our co-operation" - copy annotated by MT] [declassified Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: phone call
Source: THCR 1/8/10 f12
Editorial comments:

c1245. The date of the annotations is uncertain - they might relate to MT's memoirs when she read through past files more often underlining than writing comments. She also used a fountain pen more often in later years, and these underlinings probably were written with such a pen. Copy unannotated by MT in PREM19/1491 f64. Read documents selected from the PREM19 file. The full file from which the unannotated item is taken can be seen here - PREM19-1491.

Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 2pp
Themes: MT's meetings as PM, Charles Powell minutes, British relations with Italy, European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union