“Denis Healey: Can he assure us there is no question of American military intervention as this could only make the situation worse?
Sir Geoffrey Howe: There is no question of that.”

—  Geoffrey Howe

"British and American warships standing by", The Times, 25 October 1983, p. 4.
Answering a question on Grenada in the House of Commons, 24 October 1983. The United States invaded that night.

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