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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

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Answering a question on Grenada in the House of Commons (24 October 1983). The United States invaded that night.

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