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stopped the war in Zimbabwe and produced a
settlement that was greeted with relief by the
vast majority of Zimbabweans.
Christopher Monckton may not want to applaud
the outcome but to imply that preserving
minority rule would have been feasible or
desirable defies history and commonsense
alike. As for the Falklands, the independent
Franks Report was unequivocal in its
judgement: allegations that Foreign Office
policy had been to get rid of the islands were
"totally without foundation".
Hong Kong, your headline claimed, was a
"sacrifice to expediency".
Monckton argued
that the Foreign Office could not wait to