Sir: Is it not time to sink the whole Belgrano
debate.? After all, the people who are trying Sir: Is it not time to sink the whole Belgrano debate.? After all, the people who are trying
to make capital out of it are the very ones
who were opposed to the sending of the task force in the first place. As far as the great majority of British people are con- cerned, the decision to attack the Argentine cruiser was probably the bravest and most
there one taken in the whole war. To
merit it does not matter where the Be!gran° was going when it was torpedoed or even whether it was part of a great pincer attack on the task force. By sinking this ship we showed the Argentines that we were not prepared to reach some wishy-washy com- promise that left the thief with even half of his ill-gotten gains and, perhaps more im- portant, it ensured that the Argentine navy stayed at home for the remainder of hostilities — thus greatly increasing our chances of a relatively bloodless and suc- cessful reconquest of the islands. This is what the British people wanted and the decision to sink the cruiser was therefore the right one.
C. J. Arthur Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas, Blandford,
Dorset
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