Shrouded in Some Mystery’
The Governor General's Invitation and the 1983 Grenada Intervention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11943505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Williams (0000-0002-8375-7732, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 140-162 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2015.1123543 |
| OpenAlex | W2307469363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
On 25 October 1983 the United States, supported by several Caribbean states, intervened militarily in the commonwealth Caribbean island of Grenada. Operation Urgent Fury followed the implosion of the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Government and execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several colleagues. This article examines the alleged request for external assistance made by the Grenadian governor general, Sir Paul Scoon. It will examine the discrepancies between Scoon's memoir account of the episode and the official record to reveal that Scoon made no such request. The origins of the request emerged from discussions between Caribbean and US officials and it was brought to fruition by the Barbadian prime minister, Tom Adams
Commonwealth · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Governor · Intervention (counseling · Memoir · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · West indies · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Engineering · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |