Doubtful buffer
Sir: Cohn Welch's staunch defence of Mrs Thatcher's actions in dealing with the Falklands crisis (22 January) comes as no surprise; even those of us lacking the innate Tory bent must concede that she did a `good job' in the end. But certainly Mr Welch must realise the harm he does to his own one-man propaganda campaign for Mrs T when he claims in mitigation that Galtieri could easily have been mistaken for `a well-meaning old buffer' who was in- nocently trying to solve Argentina's social problems the best way he knew how.
Mr Welch then denies out of hand that there was and is an amazingly long list of missing Argentine citizens with the con- foundingly simple rebuttal: 'I doubt it'. Is this then just another of these local werewolf-type myths, blown absurdly out of proportion by flighty Latin-American imaginations? I doubt that.
M. Smith
Dyke Neuk, Port Road, Haugh of Urr, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire
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