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Tim in Scotland



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In 1956 France wanted to become part of the UK!!!

Strange but true - there is a very interesting programme on Radio 4 at the moment all about it and how their PM requested to join the Commonwealth as well. Sir Anthony Eden knocked it on the head! Just imagine, if France had become part of the UK, there probably wouldn't be any EU and we would all be smelling of Gaulloise and garlic!

Here is a brief summary of the program from the BBC website........ note that even the BBC doesn't use a spell-checker as it appears the tried to burn the Treaty of Rome that founded the European Union instead of signing it!

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The idea, which was first proposed by the anglophile French Prime Minister, Guy Mollet in September 1956, was rejected by Britain’s Prime Minister, Anthony Eden.

At the time it was made the Suez crisis was escalating, the French ecomony was in a mess and Britain was seen as a social and economic role model in Paris. Previously secret cabinet papers reveal that two weeks later Mollet made another request.

This time to join the British Commonwealth, a move which would have made Queen Elizabeth the official head of state of republican France. This too was rejected by Eden and a year later France singed the Treaty of Rome with Germany and the other founding nations of the Common market.


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hahahaha INCREDIBLE STORY ! i always knew you guys are still occupied by the french frogs! Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing 
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It was them trying to create a european superpower... we all know where that would have gone. We'd all be speaking francais now and eating les grenouilles! 

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