Very interesting indeed, and with the ARA San Luis on the loose it was an ongoing concern that we would lose a flat-top. The political fallout from such a loan would have been interesting...I wonder if another nation would have 'loaned' vessels to Argentina in a tit-for-tat style retaliation?
Who would have been politically aligned to do such a thing though? The Soviets operated via Libya...but something like a cruiser would have been hard to exchange without the Royal Navy interdicting it mid-route and either impounding it or sinking it.
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