Margaret Thatcher
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Opinion: The day after the Wall fell...NATO commitment might be watered down. The extent of Margaret Thatcher's duplicity on this issue, recently uncovered by the scholar Timothy Garten Ash, has shocked many of her supporters. The United States, the driving force behind... In this article: Germany, NATO, United States, Paris, Angela Merkel, Europe, Berlin, Duplicity, and Nationalism |
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 01, 2009
Margaret Thatcher was 'horrified' by the prospect of a reunited Germany
...GMT 02 Nov 2009 "France and Great Britain should pull together today in the face of the German threat," Baroness Thatcher told the French ambassador to London in March 1990, according to a French diplomatic telegram. "Kohl is capable of...
In this article: Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vadim Zagladin, Francois Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl, Paris, Second World War, and Charles Powell
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National Post | November 07, 2009
United Germany was centuries in the making
...Europe." After 40 years of professing to seek the reunification of Germany, the British and French governments (led by Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterand) fell to lobbying Soviet President Gorbachev not to allow it to happen. But it was...
In this article: Germany, Central Committee, Poland, Mikhail Gorbachev, Britain, United States, and Helmut Kohl
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San Francisco Chronicle | November 02, 2009
Berlin Wall fell without firing a press release
...of the Soviet Empire and got very little credit for it. That included the reunification of Germany against the wishes of France and Britain, the latter led by Margaret Thatcher. Amid Sarah Palin's Facebook politics, or even President...
In this article: George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Nobel Prize, Hoover Institution, Peter Schweizer, and Facebook
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The Australian | November 04, 2009
Iron Lady always fair, claims Chirac
Iron Lady always fair, claims Chirac HISTORIANS will have to revise an enduring legend from Margaret Thatcher's time as British prime minister - that she fought tooth and nail with France. Former French president Jacques Chirac says in his...
In this article: Jacques Chirac, Francois Mitterrand, Ronald Reagan, Washington, Order of Australia, David Petraeus, Kerry Stokes, and EU
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New Kerala | November 02, 2009
Margaret Thatcher saw Berlin Wall's fall as German threat to peace, stability
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl. France and Great Britain should pull together today in the face of the German threat, The Telegraph quoted Thatcher as having told to the French ambassador to London in March 1990. A French translation of...
In this article: Helmut Kohl, London, Second World War, Mikhail Gorbachev, Britain, Germany, Francois Mitterrand, and Europe
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Stuff | November 06, 2009
'Obsessed' Thatcher warned of rampant Kohl
...Europe's new-found freedom. "The 1990s begin with euphoria, they risk ending in catastrophe," said Thatcher, whose anti-European Union stance culminated in her forced resignation in December 1990. France and Britain, western Europe's...
In this article: Francois Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl, Anxiety, Germany, Europe, France, Democracy, and Communism
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Kansas City Star | October 11, 2009
Nasty, or nice? New mood among UK's Conservatives
...are our sympathies. You know what some people call us - the nasty party." </p><p>The notion stuck - even though many still view Thatcher as a savior of Britain's economy reversing the country's steep decline, breaking its dependence on...
In this article: David Cameron, Conservative Party, Britain, Labour Party, Poverty, Coal, and Big government
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to hold either post.
Born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, she went on to read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford and train as a barrister. She won a seat as an MP from Finchley in 1959, as a Conservative. When Edward Heath formed a government in 1970, he appointed Thatcher as Secretary of State for Education and Science. Four years later, she backed Keith Joseph in his bid to become Conservative party leader, but he was forced to drop out of the election; Thatcher felt that Heath's government had lost direction, so she entered the contest herself and became leader of the Conservative party in 1975. As the Conservative party maintained leads in most polls, Thatcher went on to become Britain's Prime Minister in the 1979 general election.
- Birth Date:
- October 13, 1925
- Birthplace:
- Grantham, England
- Religion:
- Methodist
- Nationality:
- British
- University Attended:
- Somerville College, Oxford
- Occupation:
- Lawyer
- Political party:
- Conservative Party
- Title:
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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