Maggie Thatcher may have been a staunch Cold Warrior, but she wasn’t too thrilled about Ronald Reagan’s invasion of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, where ultra-leftists had assassinated the pro-Cuban leader, Maurice Bishop. After all, Grenada, in spite of its leftist government, was still a member of the British Commonwealth, and Maggie hadn’t been let in the loop. Check out Ishaan Tharoor’s piece in the Washington Post on the subject: go here for a transcript of the Reagan-Thatcher phone conversation (wherein the Gipper apologizes).
