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Cr r.4.4.44 My Cabinet colleagues and I have spent some four hours considering Mr. Haig's latest proposals. Francis Pym has replied on our behalf but I am writing to you separately because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say. Throughout my administration I have tried to stay loyal to the United States as our great ally, and to the principles of democracy, liberty and justice. In your message you say that your suggestions are faithful to the basic principles we must protect. I wish they were but 04_44 they are not. I recognise that in negotiations some flexibility is necessary but there are surely some things on which we should not compromise. Two principles have been stressed in Parliament throughout all our debates and I have heard them echoed in interviews with your Senators: first the right to selfdetermination and second that aggression must not pay. The present proposals do not provide a right to selfdetermination although it is fundamental to democracy and was enjoyed by the Islanders up to the moment of invasion. We asked that it should be included. The reply, contained in Mr. Haig's letter to Francis Pym was that it could not because the Argentines would not accept it. So our principles are no longer what we believe, nor those we were elected to,g4-re-, but what the dictator will accept. I have tried to temper Mr. Haig's proposals a little, by suggesting that the interim administration must at /least
- 2 - least consult with the locally elected representatives. It is not much to ask - and I do not think you will turn it down. On the second point - that aggression must not be seen to pay, the proposals are also lacking. The military junta will be able to proclaim that through invasion, they have succeeded in ousting the British administration, with all that that means, have subjugated the right of self-determination, and have gained a negotiating framework which from its very structure and membership is likely to lead to substantially increased Argentine powers even though it does not of itself transfer sovereignty. And what then is to stop another invasion to achieve the rest? Before this aggression the Falklands were a democratic country, with liberty and a just law. After the proposed settlement, the one thing they cannot have is the only way of life they want. Perhaps you will now see why I feel so deeply about this. That our traditional friendship, to which I still loyally adhere, should have brought me and those I represent into conflict with fundamental democratic principles sounds impossible while you are at the White House and I am at No.10. I too want a peaceful settlement but we really must put up a more formidable diplomatic fight for the Falklanders and for others who may be similarly treated if we fail.