According to Monday's Yorkshire Evening Post the French Prime Minister came to Britain in 1957 to visit Anthony Eden.
He asked to resuscitate the Churchillian idea of a Union between France and Britain; Eden turned him down.
He asked that France be allowed to join the British Commonwealth; Eden turned him down.
Never mind MI5 investigating Harold Wilson.
I'd like to know just what the Hell Eden thought he was playing at.
France-UK? That could have been the basis of an EU which unified British and French ideals of Liberty.
Instead we've got Bismarck 2.
France in the Commonwealth?(And yes, they would have entertained the idea of the Queen as head of state!) That would have been the basis for a proper world power, one that would have shaped history very differently from the way it turned out.
As it was, France overtook the UK economically about 10 to 15 years later.
Thanks, Tony. Tony Eden, that is.
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