Thatcher, the first woman to become prime minister of the United Kingdom, was not a cold war advocate, although she was deeply concerned about the nature of American politics. She believed that the war of 1939 to 1945 was a war of democracy versus tyranny. She was also a lifelong supporter of civil rights, and in her first year as prime minister, in the summer of 1939, she introduced civil rights legislation in Parliament. Thatcher’s cold war stance was that…
