“The Falklands are very well known and their loss would be a shock to the whole Empire,” wrote Churchill. “They would certainly have to be retaken.” Allegedly the Japanese ambassador to Buenos Aires had promised that Tokyo “would see that the Falklands are returned to Argentina,” Read more [...]

LONDON – Wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered troops to the Falkland Islands in 1942 because he feared Japan could invade the far-flung British territory, according to documents at the National Archives in London. He was concerned that Japan might use the islands as a base to disrupt valuable Allied shipping routes around Cape Horn and from Argentina’s River Plate into the South Atlantic. A total of 1,700 soldiers were dispatched from Britain Read more [...]