Senior Tories were initially skeptical about going to war over the Falkland Islands, Margaret Thatcher's personal archive recently released documents show.
A note of the whips Office after Argentina's 1982 invasion reported solid support for military action by some conservative members of Parliament, but others privately hostile.
The newspapers are published by Churchill College, Cambridge.
They show for the first time how deeply split the party was over the Falkland Islands.
A Tory MP is quoted by the whips as who said: "we are making a big mistake, the Suez seem common sense will make".
Another proposed to let Argentina have the Falkland Islands with as little fuss as possible.
Allegedly others expressed hope that "no one that we will fight the Argentines think. We have to blow up a few ships but nothing more ".
The archive is of her personal collection of what they worth keeping thought, and includes artifacts, and documents and papers.
Among other new releases from the Falkland Islands are crisis Mrs Thatcher design hand-written notes (including many crossings out) for her historic speech in the House of Commons on 3 April 1982, where she had to explain to MPs how the invasion had been allowed to happen.
There is also a copy of the Daily Mail, dating back to just after the crisis broke, with a head off or "she had the stomach for it".
Speculating as to why they would have kept that particular newspaper, told Lord Cecil Parkinson (who was a member of her cabinet war) the BBC he was sure she was always aware that she was being tested.
As Britain's first woman Prime Minister, he said, they would have known that people looking to see how they rose to the challenge of taking the country to war.
Other personal papers released today provide intriguing new insights into her State of mind at the time.
Comments about life at number 10 turned out that much of her day and nights-with the war were retrieved. A diary of one of her closest advisers, Sir Alan Walters, showed that she was at 3: 30 am, apparently wait front-line reports.
A copy of a thank you note them to a file share at the end of April sent known: "I said we had a tense day ahead. The phone call during the breakfast indicated that the runway at Port Stanley had bombarded by Vulcans, with success. During the last week there has been an activity and I never thought to experience tension. "
But they ended the letter with typical steadfastness, adding: "this has happened throughout history and we have to our contribution to the history under the law."
Private griefAs the battle to take back the Islands began began to come by means of Gravity, grim reports ships is hit and the inevitable victims. The archive contains the handwritten notes of duty clerks there were passed to her with the bad news.
They sometimes, apparently, could not control her grief. Her former aide remembers her break down in tears Harvey Thomas backstage at a constituency event after receiving the news that the HMS Sheffield with an Exocet missile had struck. It took her 40 minutes to pull together itself.
"They have the news received or immediately before they came when they arrived," he told the BBC.
"She was deeply disturbed that she had to send British sailors to be killed and she was just quietly cry. When someone came to the room and said, ' We should get there.
"When she came back out on the platform she had pulled itself together, she was the Prime Minister and they had a country."
Iron LadyBut there is also plenty of the famous Thatcher steely determination reflected in the documents. A draft letter to u.s. President Ronald Reagan, shows the no holes barred approach that they used to rebuff the United States attempts to broker a peace agreement.
Her handwritten original design turns out to be a refusal to compromise, and even a hint of outrage: "in my Government services I've tried to stay true to the United States as our great ally." she wrote.
"In your post you say that your suggestions are true to the fundamental principles that we must protect. I wish they were, but unfortunately they are not. "
This design was never sent. Her ministers convinced her to tone it down. The s passages were replaced by more diplomatic language.
But the fact that Mrs Thatcher kept it, and scribbled on the typed version of her first draft "the letter to Reagan that never has been sent" suggests that she felt it her real strength of feeling about the conflict.
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