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Since his retirement in 1979 after successive spells as British Ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn and Paris, Sir Nicholas Henderson went ahead with publication despite pressure by the Foreign Office to desist. Recalled by Mrs Thatcher following the 1979 General Election he was despatched to Washington as Ambassador where his three years service included the British Government's decision to send a task force to recapture the Falklands, from the occupying Argentinian forces.