Sir Robert Armstrong

<p>40.Carver confirmed the coup talk at the Cambridge Union on 4 March 1980. He

said that 'fairly senior' officers at the Army's headquarters were talking about

the possibility of military intervention during the miners' strike in February

This illustrates a curious episode in Whitehead (1985 pp109-110). Sir Robert

Armstrong, Cabinet Secretary "had been at Ditchley on 27 January talking

wildly about coups and coalitions"..."Downing Street insiders talk of him as

..'really quite mad at the end.. lying on the floor and talking about moving the

Red Army from here and the Blue Army from there.' " We wonder how mad he

really was. When Cabinet Secretaries talk of coups, under any circumstances,

we should take note.

Lord Chalfont said of the time: "There were some people behind the scenes ...

who were suggesting that the only answer .... was a military government."

(Whitehead (1985) p 211)</p>

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