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Earlier this year, the BBC unearthed some startling documents in the British National Archives. The papers, which dated back to the Suez crisis in 1956, documented a proposal by Guy Mollet, France's Socialist Prime Minister of the time, to create a union between France and Great Britain. When his British counterpart, the Conservative Anthony Eden, flatly rejected the idea, Mollet suggested that France could instead become a member of the British Commonwealth...
...Scottish Presbyterian minister, Brown so excelled at school that he was accepted into Edinburgh University at the age of 16 and went on to work his way up through the ranks of Britain's Labour Party at a time when it was saddled with socialist dogma...
Others are unconvinced that Sarkozy has it in him to bridge political divides. Michèle Canet, head of the Socialist group at the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine, says he made similar vows to collaborate with opponents when he took over there in 2004, "but he never worked with us. He just used the office as a tool for his campaign." Indeed, now that the campaign is over, Sarkozy may well prove as hard-edged and polarizing as ever. If he channels even half the abrasive, risk-taking energy he expended on his rise to the top, France...
...trailing Socialist candidate S?gol?ne Royal had warned, during the final hours of the Presidential campaign, that voting for "Nicolas Sarkozy is a dangerous choice," warning that a Sarkozy victory would unleash "violence and brutality" in the projects. Those comments left a lot of banlieue residents even more resentful of France's politics. "To hear the Socialist Presidential candidate cite us as this easily ignitable fuse that would inevitably explode if Sarkozy won was deeply offensive," says Salah Amokrane, a leftist member of Toulouse's municipal council who represents the city's project populations. "Pointing to us as the stereotypical hotheads...
...while an oddly pleased-looking Royal accepted defeat by promising voters "what we've started here together, we'll finish together," her place at the head of the campaign in June is already under question. As one senior Socialist official noted mockingly while she spoke, "Someone needs to tell her she cost us a very heavy loss - she looks and sounds as though...